clark ashton smith out of space and time

Readers of the old blog were selfish, they consumed and moved on like digital predators but here people often like to stop and take the time to click on a button that says ‘Like’ or ‘Follow’. Thankfully I get a lot more than one person visiting the blog each day but what I do get that I never really developed whilst running an infinitely more ‘successful’ site (in terms of statistics) is interaction. I told myself that if I got only one hit per day then I’d carry on writing because at least there was someone reading and connecting somewhere. But it wasn’t success I craved, I needed an outlet for some of my slightly disturbing obsessions and a little community spirit within which to share it. I have no idea why I jumped ship to WordPress and started another blog, especially one with such a ridiculously narrow premise (not to mention unsearchable name) as this Pictures of hoary old science fiction paperback covers and the odd quip about what music I’d been listening to. I’d had enough of blogging at that point, it felt grubby and lonely – a faceless world of voiceless readers swimming in a sea of my words.

I told them it was about passion not money, they said they understood completely… and offered me a bigger retainer fee. I was eventually contacted by a ‘proper’ online music site who wanted to ‘subsume my demographic’ and offered me a paid tenure with their grubby organ which I turned down due to unreasonably restrictive T&Cs.

I ran a previous blog covering new music releases on a rival site which, over the course of a year became inexplicably huge to the point where my hits per week where sometimes upwards of five figures. I’ve been a WordPress blogger for almost two years now and unsubscribedblog is my one and only endeavour on the web.

Clark ashton smith out of space and time