Hats Off To Free Subscribers!
Not every Substacker can afford “only” $50 a year times every writer they love. I truly appreciate all my free subscribers. Like me they share and help build a network of paid subscribers for others.
Free subscribers help authors by sharing the gifts of other writers sincerely, not because Substack suggests it. Anyone I recommend is someone I trust with political facts, or someone I love for their gifts of artistic and literary integrity.
If you read Diane’s Blue Notes, you’ll know very soon who are my favorites. I thank you for subscribing to me for free and paying for the gifted artists, poets, novelists, and lawyers and historians who know what is at stake in November 2024. The latter deserve our gratitude for keeping facts and intelligent coverage in focus.
Respectfully,
As a retiree (yes, one of those "leaches" living off the Social Security money I religiously paid in with every paycheck from the age of 16 until I retired at 65) I very much appreciate your kind sentiments, Diane. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Right, a paid subscription base is built off free subscribers—without their promotion and interactions, maybe we’d never attract paid ones! Hats off to the free subscribers; they’re well appreciated!