TSR Newsletter: January 20th, 2025
Volume 2, Issue 3
Hello, TSR Subscriber! We have five new reviews to share with you today. Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry and an Indigenous title by Tanya Talaga. We also share some encouraging stats and shine a spotlight on a TSR Contributor, Anne Smith-Nochasak.
Featured Post
More Reviews
TSR Contributor Spotlight
Anne Smith-Nochasak
Anne M. Smith-Nochasak grew up in rural western Nova Scotia, where she currently resides and teaches part-time after many years working in northern communities. She has self-published three novels using Friesen Press's services: A Canoer of Shorelines (2021), The Ice Widow (2022), and River Faces North (Taggak Journey, Book 1). She is currently a member of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. Anne can be found reading, kayaking, gardening, renovating, or exploring the woods with her golden dog Shay while her cat Kit Marlowe supervises the house when she isn't writing or teaching. Anne can be reached through her website https://www.acanoerofshorelines.com/ or on X, IG, and FB
Other News
Stats!
Early last December, it was my goal to get two hundred subscribers to our Substack page, either paid or free, by year’s end. The call went out on all social media platforms, including our new Bluesky1 account, and the response was great. We hit two hundred easily, and just over a month later we stand at 245 subscribers, up 47 over the last 30 days. Our new contributors can account for some of the increase (as their social media friends followed us), and good ol’ word of mouth around the CanLit community accounts for a chunk too. If you have liked or shared one of our posts, thank you!
Our weekly newsletter format is going over well, and as such, our “open rate”2 of the newsletter has increased almost 3% over the last thirty days.
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Thanks,
James M. Fisher, Editor-in-Chief
@theseaboardreview.ca is our Bluesky handle.
The percentage of people that actually open an email from TSR. Hard to believe that some don’t but they may be accessing new posts via the Substack app instead.