A Personal Note from CHH

And limited time pricing on paid subscriptions

In the next week or two, I will be raising my prices. This will not apply to any existing paid subscribers, who will get to keep their current price. So first of all, if you are not a paid subscriber yet and are on the fence, I recommend becoming one now (perhaps on an annual basis to save even more money) before the prices are raised:

If you want to understand my reasoning behind this change, read on.

Since I was a little girl, I always thought I’d be a writer. Actually, I knew. I was so confident in my talent that I didn’t consider I’d have to do anything else. And then life happened. I realized there was no Writing Factory that would pay me a regular salary to write. If I wanted to write a book, people would have to want to publish it. I’d have to know the right people and then impress those people. While working in tech full-time to support my writing, I endured countless failures, including an entire book about my completely unremarkable experience at theater camp. By the time I was thirty, I had more or less given up entirely.

I actually created CHH as part of a plan to cope with the failure I experienced with my writing, by doing something small and purely fun. That’s why for the first 5 years, CHH was all about webcomics and memes. Substack started out a few years later as a fun hobby, which I thought I might use for generating some extra shopping money for fun stuff like fabrics for sewing, cute shoes and date nights. I had a big Twitter account but still wasn’t making money from it. The plan was to do occasional funny takes or Trump impressions on my Substack a couple times a week for my most involved followers, and continue the slog of my corporate job, at which I sucked. However, things took off to the point where this is looking like something I may do full-time, although I haven’t taken that plunge quite yet. As you can see, I now earned the coveted orange bestseller badge (you can’t pay for these like you can on Twitter!) and it’s encouraging me to make this my whole Thing.

Look at the badge!

But anyway, I’m realizing now that I probably priced too low for the amount and (Trump voice: FRANKLY) quality of content I’ve been releasing on my own, without a team of editors or anyone to help me promote it. It’s a lot. In order to continue this output without sacrificing time with my kids, I had to go from washing my hair daily to washing it every week. I have white person hair, you guys. This is NOT okay.

Anyway, you can still become a paid sub at the current price (and again, existing paid subs will NOT have their prices raised) for the next week. But that’s not all! For the paid subscribers who want even more, I am releasing a Sicko/Gooner Tier for the ultimate sickos who want to goon out to CHH as much as possible. This tier will be $199/year and will include a variety of new perks, including the ability to submit mailbag/advice questions for a new advice column I’m doing, exclusive content and access to CHH Substack Chat which is technically a current perk for paid subs but I never use it, so it’s moving to the Gooners, with the new ability for contributors to start their own threads. I will also release exclusive content for this tier, but I’m still figuring it out. Keep a look out!

Thank you everyone for supporting this publication. It means so much to me!!

CHH