The Newsletter is Back!

For about two years, starting immediately after the Covid-19 pandemic descended and continuing until May 2022, I published a weekly barbecue newsletter called The Cue Sheet. In the fall of 2021, I added another newsletter associated with a digital publication called The Southeastern Dispatch, which was focused on dining in the Carolinas. I put both of them on hiatus as the world returned to normal and I got busy other things, but I always intended to bring back a newsletter in some form.

It a took a while, but here it is.

Instead of giving this version a clever name, I’m just calling it the Robert F. Moss newsletter. My interests, I’ve determined, cut across too many genres: the food & beverage scene (especially barbecue and dining in my home city of Charleston, South Carolina) along with history and even a little cultural commentary, particularly about internet culture and digital media.

I want to write about all those things as the mood hits me, but I’m well aware that the pool of readers who are interested in all of those things is tiny if not nonexistent.

So here’s what I’m going to try. There are three sections to the Robert F. Moss newsletter:

Maybe you’ll want to read them all (and I hope you do), but you can choose which channel(s) you receive via email by changing the settings in the subscription Notifications section of your Substack account page.

Here are a few more answers to what I anticipate may be frequently asked questions:

Q: How do I subscribe?

Just go to https://robertfmoss.substack.com/ and type in your email on the splash page or click the maroon “Subscribe” button in the upper right corner of the main page.

Q: How much does it cost?

For now, it’s free. I may add a premium/paid subscription level down the road, but for now there’s no charge, and you get what you pay for!

Q: How often will the newsletter go out?

A: I’m not sure yet. Rather than being overly ambitious, I’ll just let things roll and see if a natural cadence emerges.

Q: Will it be as damned long as that old Cue Sheet?

A: No, or at least not most of the time. Rather than trying to turn out a newsletter on a fixed schedule with a fixed format, I’ll release individual notes and features as they are ready. The idea is to have more but smaller bites coming your way.

Q: Will there be Burnt Ends?

Absolutely.

That’s enough for now. Instead of talking about what I plan to do, I’d rather just jump in and start doing it. I do have a post queued up for the Miscellany section that drills more into why, after all this time, I am jumping on the Substack platform this time around. But we’ll let that one drop when it seems time.

So spread the word: the Robert F. Moss newsletter is back!

Now let’s get cooking.