If you’ve noticed things changing around here lately, you’re not imagining it.
As I’ve continued building my writing portfolio and paying attention to where my time and energy are actually going, I realized I wasn’t using this website the way I used to anymore. The longer I worked, the clearer it became that I was trying to make multiple platforms do the same job when they actually work better when they each have a distinct purpose.
So I wanted to share a small update.
I’m not killing the website. I’m changing its job and function.
To continue streamlining my work and making space for growth, lbachman.com is becoming more of a storefront and home base. This website will continue to house announcements, updates, featured projects, publications, portfolio pieces, and information about what I’m building and where to find me. That part isn’t going away. What is changing is the role the blog plays here.
The blog itself is no longer functioning the way it once did, and that’s intentional. Over time, Substack has grown into the place where more of my writing naturally lives. Subscribers have gathered there and some of you have chosen to become paying subscribers, which is something I’m deeply grateful for. Because of that support, I want to continue showing up consistently and putting my energy into the space people are actively investing in and reading.
As part of this shift, former series here on the website are now being archived and removed. Some of you have been here long enough to remember that this space wasn’t only writing—it was interviews, features on other writers, artists, and people throughout the indie industry, experiments, recurring series, and places where I explored ideas in different formats.
Now, with Dear Indie thriving on Substack, I finally have a place that can hold all of those things together instead of scattering them across categories and sections. In a lot of ways, The Word has evolved.
Instead of building separate website series for mysteries, cryptids, and deep dives like WTF Cryptos or The Veil, I can approach those subjects as articles, creature features, essays, interviews, and recurring pieces in a space built for ongoing publication. The interest in those topics hasn’t disappeared—it’s found a better container.
Books take time. Creative work takes time. Essays take time. Between book releases, Substack allows me to continue publishing, sharing work regularly, and creating something sustainable while building my portfolio and body of work over time. Rather than dividing my attention across multiple places trying to maintain duplicate blogs, I’d rather focus on creating one strong, active space for the writing itself while keeping this website functioning as the home base.
So if you visit the website looking for updates, releases, announcements, or to see what I’m working on next, this will still be that place. But if you’re here for the essays, articles, creative writing, interviews, reflections, and longer pieces—the actual ongoing work—I’d recommend heading over to Substack, because that’s where most of the new words will live.
Nothing is disappearing. The website isn’t going away.
It’s becoming what I need it to be now: the front door.
Substack is where I’ll invite you in.
Thank you for reading, for subscribing, for supporting my work, and for making it possible for me to keep writing between the bigger milestones.
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