Pirates Prospects returned last week, after spending half a year on a reduced publishing schedule, and a few months of the site being offline as I contemplated a server change, and really, whether I wanted to maintain this operation.
This site has been 100% individually owned for 15 years now. I’ve spent my excess value each year trying to provide paid opportunities to other inspiring writers. I’ve wrestled with the many changes to online advertising, subscription models, and the new incursions of Artificial Intelligence and venture capitalist money. At this point, this site needs a few hundred paid subscribers per month just to survive on its own.