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What is Marty’s Magic Ruseletter?
Marty’s Magic Ruseletter is, as the name suggests, a FREE monthly newsletter on magic as both a hobby and performance art. Subscribing to the Ruseletter is the best way to keep up-to-date with the latest content on my magic blog, Marty’s Bag of Tricks.
If you want to learn more about the Ruseletter before subscribing, I recommend reading Monthly Update #1. Once you subscribe, you’ll receive future issues on the last day of every month in your email inbox (that’s the theory, at least; often, the monthly updates are a few days late).
How Often Do You Publish New Material?
The newsletter is published monthly (see the Monthly Updates section). However, I also post “regular columns” to Substack on an ad hoc basis, as and when I finish writing a new trick or an article on magic theory. If you’d like to receive an email notification on the day each article is published (rather than wait for the next monthly update), you can enable additional notifications for each newsletter section (go to your account page to do this).
You can turn them all on or pick and choose which notifications you want to receive in your inbox. The monthly update will be the only newsletter you’ll be subscribed to by default. I hate spam, so I’d rather you consciously opt in to the other notifications. If you do, you’ll receive two or three emails from me each month.
What are the Main Benefits of Becoming a Subscriber?
Subscribing will give you access to my original close-up magic. Each month, I try to share at least one unpublished magic trick for you to learn, practice and perform.
As a valued subscriber, you’ll also be given access to some of my unpublished magic books in syndicated form. Once each book is written, I’ll publish it as an ebook and possibly as a physical book (depending on demand). However, subscribers will retain access to the web versions of the book forever.
Is the Ruseletter really free?
More than 50% of the content on the Ruseletter is free. All of my monthly updates are available to read without a paid subscription.
For the rest of the regular articles, I use a “freeven” subscription model, which means every even-numbered article is free to read. In addition, all of the Legends of Legerdemain and Obscure Origins posts are not behind the paywall. I’ve done this to encourage all magicians, young and old alike, to learn more about the history of magic.
Want to read everything I write? Then I encourage you to upgrade to a paid subscription. I’ve kept the cost ridiculously low, given the time and effort I put into each and every article. Currently, a monthly subscription costs $5 (£4). Pay for an annual subscription, and you’ll get two months for free. So for $50 (£40) per year, you can get access to everything I write. Paid subscribers also gain direct access to all of the hidden pages on my blog. However, if you are content with accessing only the free articles, that is perfectly okay with me.
By becoming a paid subscriber, you’ll be supporting the publication of both free and paid-for content here and on my blog.
If you don’t want to pay a subscription but would still like to support my writing, you can do so by buying me a coffee via Ko-Fi. ☕
