Update with lots of news - July 2022 (Patreon)

Hi everyone!This is Margaret, writing the first of what will be monthly updates about what's going on with Strangers. You'll hear from the rest of the collective too, but we figured for continuity's sake that I'd go first.Meet the collective: I didn't actually ask the rest of the collective how they wanted to be introduced and described to you all, so let's just say... hrmm.. Right now, we're Robin, Casandra, Brooke, Inmn, Io, and Margaret. We all do a bit of everything, but maybe when each person does their "how we're doing this month" they'll say a bit more about themselves and their jobs.

Me, I'm working mostly on the book publishing side of things, since I've got some experience in that, and I host one of the two podcasts. My name is Margaret. I live in Appalachia with my puppy and I play music and write.The collective of us has spent the last six months or so kind of getting our shit together for a ton of projects, and are endlessly grateful for y'all's support and your patience! Of course, we've been getting those monthly zines out (and slowly getting our schedule together for that) but we're gonna be doing so much more than that besides.So, let's see:Monthly features: we post a new feature here to you all every month, and mail out copies. We're always looking for good content, so please tell your writer friends about us (or, if you are your own writer friend, send us stuff!)Monthly podcast: Inmn hosts the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness podcast, which if you haven't checked out you totally should. Each month you get a reading of the feature as well as an interview with the author. Find it by searching wherever you find podcasts.Live Like the World is Dying: I (Margaret) host an individual- and community-preparedness podcast called Live Like the World is Dying. Thanks to the help of the rest of the collective, it now comes out every two weeks, and we're hoping to get it weekly by the end of the year but we'll see. I talk to various experts in various fields about how we can be more prepared and make our communities more resilient. We're also going to be experimenting with the format of the show to make it more useful for folks, with more rountable discussions and checking in on the progress of the odd, slow apocalypse we're living in.Books! We're going to be publishing books! Expect more big announcements about these soon, and we'll be offering a deep discount (as deep as we can) to our backers on these books. I didn't actually check with the rest of the collective about which books we're ready to announce, but I will say we've got some really cool shit lined up. We started off being like "wellll..... we'll do books if we REALLY believe in them" and immediately got like 3 submissions that we were like "yes, we really believe in these," so we've got those coming out over the course of the next year. (It takes a lot of work to publish a book.)

Penumbra City: we've been working on this tabletop roleplaying game for years, and we'll start teasing more of the content again soon, and we're leaving alphatesting and going into betatesting soon too! If you're interested in potentially being a playtester, please reach out!Other stuff I'm forgetting! I bet there's other stuff too! If so we'll post about new cool stuff soon.