The Slow Ink Circle

The Slow Ink Circle is a monthly postal subscription for those who want to step inside my writing process, support a working researcher and writer, and spend time with something tangible in a world that is increasingly not.

This is my invitation to you into the slow work of making a book.

The works themselves are rooted in herbalism and Scottish folk magic, exploring the practices, traditions, and relationships that live within them. They take off from where Mill Dust and Dreaming Bread stop.

What is the Slow Ink Circle?

Through the Slow Ink circle, you will gain insight into how work comes together.

From archive research and field notes to recorded conversations, transcription, and the shaping of ideas into something coherent and alive. This kind of work takes time, care, and resources, and your subscription directly supports that process. You will also come to appreciate the magpie methodology of a writer at many intersections.

Each month, you will receive a physical envelope. Inside, something different.

It may be field notes gathered in the moment, a first draft chapter, fragments, reflections, or pieces drawn directly from the writing and research as it unfolds and perhaps some bits and bobs from my travels.

These monthly missives are not polished or final works. They come as they are, from my desk to your hands.

You will see the hesitations, the changes in direction, the threads that are followed and those that are set aside. You will witness the moments where something unexpected takes root, and what does or does not make it towards the final manuscript.

Over time, these monthly dispatches gather into something larger.

You will watch the shape of a book emerge and, piece by piece, build towards your own complete first draft. Alongside this, you will come to understand the rhythms of attention, relationship, and craft that sit beneath the work. You will also start to build your own collections of how to apply the things I explore in everyday folk magic application.

In a world that pushes for speed, polish, and constant output, I hope this circle offers something else.

A slower rhythm. A shared act of noticing. A chance to sit with a story as it grows.

Most importantly, it sits outside the pull of screens, scraping, and platforms that shape what we see and support in ways that are not always transparent.

Ink, paper, and the quiet intimacy of something made and sent by hand to you.