New Features!

The Ghost(Pro) Free Trial is Dead, Long Live the Bonus Features!

Hi (No) Wonder-ers! 

I started this website on Ghost(Pro) as a free trial… which recently ended, so now I get to pay for the privilege of posting here.

Unless, of course, I monetize this somehow. 

Friends, please know that I have always been terrible at requesting money or selling anything. I am the anti-Billy Mays. I couldn’t sell ice water to the hellfire-parched ghost of Henry Kissinger. I was always reminded of this when my grade school made me sell World’s Finest Chocolate. 

For those fortunate enough not to know what I’m talking about, World’s Finest Chocolate is an MLM fundraising scheme that schools and organizations use for… well, fundraising. World’s Finest Chocolate provides containers of chocolate bars for students to sell at a profit, which the organization collects without the students ever seeing a red cent of it (unless as some cheap knick-knack offered as a “reward.”)

Some of my classmates were excellent at this, and as of my 2017 departure from Facebook many of them had parlayed this into ostentatiously successful Rodan+Fields side hustles. 

Me? Not so much. I had many doors slammed in my face and never sold anything… except for the time I stress-ate an entire box in one sitting, leaving my parents no choice but to buy the box. Which I suppose is *one* way to make a sale.

In addition to the perfunctory “buy me a coffee” Stripe link, which would allow readers to send small-dollar donations if they felt so inclined, I am adding a paid membership tier that would give paid subscribers access to additional features.

One such feature is an AMA/Dunk Tank. For a nominal subscription fee, the AMA/Dunk Tank would give readers the opportunity to ask me anything in the comments. This would also double as a way of monetizing trolling. Someone wants to explain my own area of expertise to me? They can spring for a paid membership and go to town. Want to tell me that I’m ugly and my content sucks? Become a paid subscriber and let those grievances air like it’s Festivus! 

Of course I’ll continue to produce weekly-ish pieces on sex-positivity; these, along with the prior “From the Vault” pieces from the original Substack, will remain free. And the OG Substack readers all know that I still have plenty more archival material to add to this section.

I look forward to seeing if these ideas will bring in enough to cover Ghost(Pro)’s cost. These modest fundraising efforts can be no worse than my grade school forays into World's Finest Chocolate.

Thank you for being a friend,

Merrit