After yesterday, here's what I've got for y'all

And I’d rather you buy the book.

Hey friends!

After yesterday, I figure I owe y'all something good. So here's what I've got.

The Nurture Method comes out April 28th. And with it, I’m adding a paid option here on Substack — $5 a month or $55 a year.

Here’s what’s behind the paywall:

Permission Slips. The real ones. The weekly kind. Short, sometimes silly, sometimes the exact one you needed at 2pm on a Tuesday.

Behind the scenes of the book I’m working on now. Yes — there’s another one coming. And I want to bring you inside it while it’s still messy. The chapters I’m wrestling with. The ideas that aren’t quite working yet. The stuff I’m scared to say out loud. What my editor pushes back on. The real making of a book, not the polished version you get at the end.

The free newsletter isn’t going anywhere. The essays, the reckonings, the “why are we still doing it this way” stuff — all of that stays free. Because that’s what brought y’all here, and I’m not pulling it behind a wall now.

Here’s the part I’m actually excited about:

I’d rather you buy The Nurture Method than pay for this Substack.

So here’s the deal:

• Buy the book from Barnes & Noble → send me a screenshot of your order and I’ll give you 6 months of paid, free.

• Leave a review on Barnes & Noble or Goodreads after you read it → send me a screenshot of the review and I’ll give you a full year of paid, free.

Do both, stack ‘em. That’s a year and a half on me.

And here's the thing — the ebook version is 99 cents. Ninety-nine cents. So if a paid Substack subscription is out of reach right now, the ebook is less than a cup of gas station coffee, and it still counts. Buy the ebook, screenshot it, get your 6 months. Read it, review it, get your year. The whole deal works on $0.99.

Send your screenshots to heather.roberts@thenurturemethod.co and I’ll set you up myself.

No hoops. No fine print. Just my way of saying: if you’re going to spend money on me this year, spend it on the book. The Substack thing, I can comp.

Thank you for being here. Means more than y’all know.

xx, Heather