So I started an OnlyFangs

I have a real job, but my side projects have occasionally gotten out of hand. One of those is Dracula Daily, the email newsletter where I email you the entire book Dracula, in ‘real time’, on the days when the events happen to the characters. The whole book runs over about six months. And then I do it again the next year.

My side project life now has a rhythm, and one of the big sections in that rhythm is Dracula Season. In 2026 this will be our fifth time through, and we’re about to embark on Dracula Season.

A crazy thing about this is: most people don’t unsubscribe after reading it! There are still hundreds of thousands of people sign up, and this year more people than ever read Dracula together. This kind of blows my mind!

The newsletter runs on Substack. Even if your newsletter is free, the platform really wants you to consider a paid subscription tier, and whether you like it or not they offer your readers a way to ‘pledge’ a subscription. So last year I caved to that pressure, and launched the official supporter tier.

I called it Dracula Weekly, because for those supporters only I write a weekly recap post. I cover what happened in the reading (in case you missed one or feel behind), and point to some of the good memes/jokes/artwork/etc that people have created, and then some general notes and pointers to other things I think are neat. That’s not much of an ‘exclusive’ reward here. Also I might mail you some merch.

I called it Dracula Weekly officially, but secretly I call it my OnlyFangs.

Sending the same emails out year after year to hundreds of thousands of people is exciting - but having these actual supporters is surprisingly motivating! It’s not the money, but the signal that people actually care. Because I get it: you sign up for something, you may or may not read it, and you might just never get around to unsubscribing. Maybe you delete it when it comes in, maybe you just throw it in your junk or to-read-later pile. I also don’t allow comments on Dracula (because I don’t know how I would community-manage this many people), and so it’s hard to know if people are engaged… or just haven’t gotten around to unsubscribing.

So knowing that there are real supporters out there who have made this choice, that actually want Dracula Daily to keep going, makes all the difference. Like I said, surprisingly motivating!

(Yes, there ARE also tens of thousands of new subscribers each year. I’m excited about them too!)

Anyway, this year as a thank-you I’ve made some Dracula Daily-themed band-aids, which I will send out to supporters. I think this is a good joke! We’ll see.

Anyways: Dracula Season starts on May 3! You can sign up to read along with us - it’s free! Or of course, you can also subscribe to my OnlyFangs.