Newsletters! I write, and have written, a variety of newsletters. It can be confusing. Here they all are, listed out, in an effort to make sense of the jumble.
Some 40,000+ folks subscribe to these freggin' things.
Currently Active Newsletters
Roden (monthly) — November 2012- (97 issues) My longest running newsletter; most general, usually blabbing about things: literary, photographic, film-related, humidity, walking, and more
Ridgeline (weekly-ish) — January 2019- (200 issues) My weekly walking-related email; originally, walking all over the world, but because of COVID, has been almost entirely Japan focused since 2020
SP Notes (once-a-month-ish) — January 2019- Members-only newsletter; mainly used for announcing members-only livestreams, product launches, discounts, members-only interviews, and more
Nightingalingale (daily-ish) — September 2021- A members-only daily diary about the writing / editing / production of my next book; originally only 21 days long, but now extended in chunks, indefinitely (until book publication?)
Previously Active Newsletters These are mainly "pop-up" style newsletters; that is, newsletters that align with a big walk or season. SPECIAL PROJECTS members get access to the archives for these pop-up newsletters.
2024
May 14 - May 31, 2024 — The Return to Pachinko Road — daily Pop-up newsletter 18 days walking from Kyoto to Tokyo along the Tōkaidō (the first time was from Tokyo to Kyoto), at an "Edo-era Pace" of about 40 kilometers-a-day or so.
2023
November 5 - November 12, 2023 — TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO³ — daily Pop-up newsletter 6 days walking from Disneyland to Mt. Kumotori 150km across Tokyo-to
June 22 - July 2, 2023 — BASIE!BOP!JAMAICA! — daily Pop-up newsletter 16 days of visiting some of the best old jazz kissa in Tōhoku, Japan, each day, writing, photographing
January 16-25, 2023 — TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO² — daily Pop-up newsletter 7 days of walking 20km-30km of Tokyo each day, writing, photographing
2022
October 4 - 17, 2022 — Kiiiiiiiiiiiiii — daily Pop-up newsletter 14 days of photos (and some stories) on a research trip around the Kii Peninsula
August 14 - 25, 2022 — TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO — daily Pop-up newsletter 7 days of walking 20km+ of Tokyo each morning from 4 a.m.
May 12 - June 21, 2022 — M,IBAW — daily Pop-up newsletter photograph-only newsletter during 40 days of traveling Europe
2021
November 15 - Dec 20, 2021 — Tiny Barber, Post Office — daily Pop-up newsletter running for 35 days as I walk 350km through 10 tiny-ish Japanese cities, from Hokkaido to Kyushu
May - June, 2021 — Where are all the Nightingales? (WaatN?) — daily Written during my 500km+ Kii Peninsula walk (Ise-ji, Kumano Kodō, etc); archive available for SPECIAL PROJECTS members
March 3 - July 21, 2021 — A Cafe with a View of the Waterfall — weekly A weekly photography newsletter run in seasons; each week, an image and a sentence describing that image
2020
November - December, 2020 — Pachinko Road — daily Written as I walked the full Tōkaidō, from Tokyo to Kyoto; archive available for SPECIAL PROJECTS members
2019
April - May 2019 — The SMS Newsletter — daily Written as I walked some 600+km along the Nakasendō and beyond; archive available for SPECIAL PROJECTS members
Newsletter-related essays A few things I've learned writing newsletters
Pop-up Newsletters, the Greatest Newsletters (2021) Why having a hard stop on the end of a newsletter is a powerful and useful thing, and why more folks starting newsletter should consider this as a first step