When I was a callow, unpublished author with my new MA in Creative Writing clutched in my hand, I rapidly realised that to become a published author I would have to do some publicity for myself. Whatever I was going to write would benefit by having a list of people interested in what I did and what I wrote.
What seemed to fit was an emailbased newsletter. It went well, slowly growing to 200 or so subscribers, but then in 2018 GDPR arrived and by the beginning of 2019 it was clear that the best chance of a replacement was for me to move to a podcast.