Newsletter Launch: The B-Side! (Plus a little giveaway)

What’s intimate, entertaining, and might buy you Starbucks? My new newsletter, The B-Side!

So, this morning at work, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and trying to erase the vision of Scott’s pale, crinkle-cut toes in those soggy brown flip-flops, when I saw it. The cliche of all cliche text posts: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” You gets no like from me, I thought and I continued to scroll, admiring the shine of my thumb nail as I did. And then it smacked me, right in my rude face. I am finally, finally becoming the change I wish to see in this ol’ world.

I’ve been laying low lately, not writing much. It’s been a little over three weeks since I’ve posted, but the weeks always feel like months, and the months like forever when I’m not writing publicly. Somehow I manage to miss eyes I never see scanning my story. At first I charged my absence to my exhaustion. But there was a little moodiness (read: depression?) in there too. When exhaustion and sadness overtake any desire I have to write, it is, for lack of a fancier term, bad. That’s when I know I’m in need of a break. So I took a time-out from the blog and Twitter for a while (and, of course, my Blogger Brigade came looking for me).

But, I haven’t just been laying up all sad-like. I’ve been working too, on some “stay humble, stay low, blow like Hootie” biz (bonus points if you know where that line came from without bugging Google). Unfortunately, my darkest days are my most fruitful, creatively. When I’m in a weird mood (always) I can really get my hands in the clay.  So I’ve been working and I’m excited for what the rest of 2015 has in store for me and for what I have in store for you! We’ll start with the launch of my newsletter, The B-Side.

You know how this works in the music world. The A-Side of the record or tape gets the promotion. It gets the attention, the airplay, the advertisement. But you fall in love with the B-side. The B-Side has that bonus. It’s the intimate side, the side hosting the gems that you’e 100% sure were crafted and recorded just for you.  And sometimes, you may just find your favorite track tucked away in the B-Side.

In my world, The B-Side is your one stop shop for exclusive announcements, content, giveaways, special offers (read: discounts, you money mongers!)  and the piece of my mind that doesn’t make it to the blog. The B-Side will run on a bi-weekly Sunday schedule and will launch on July 26!

“But what about that Starbucks!?” you whine. Ah, yes. Everyone who signs up between now and 11:59 pm on July 23 will be entered to win either a $25 Starbucks gift card or a $25 Amazon gift card. It’s winner’s choice, so the first randomly selected name will choose which card they prefer, second gets what’s left. Drawing winners on July 24 and announcing them in the first edition of the newsletter. B-Side is live July 26. Prizes must be claimed by Friday Aug 1, 2015 or I’m headed to Starbucks to do some Amazon shopping. 

The remainder of 2015 is going to take me on a wild ride and I’d like to take you with me. There’s no height requirement for this ride, you just gotta hop on board The B-Side!