Autumn’s greetings! Melpomene here, messenger-CEO bringing you the news from Alexandria.

First, an invitation

Next week, Alexandria’s shared journal will open up on Plexus. You are all humbly invited to join us there!

What is a shared journal? It’s a playground and a town bulletin board, where participants can write thoughts or share excerpts from things they’re reading and see related thoughts others have posted.

We’re going to experiment in it with friends who resonate with the Alexandria dream. We encourage you to use it to upload quotes or excerpts and find serendipitous connections with other members, or just share what you’re thinking about today.

If you’d like to be notified when the journal opens, join our Discord if you’re not there already or just reply to this email. To learn more about Plexus and why we Muses are excited about it, check out this lovely article by its founder.

Other upcoming offerings

We’re hosting Story Summit November 5, where founders, builders, artists, and scientists will come together for writing and conversations facilitated by Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Ken Liu. The idea is to create a record of this moment, a collective myth of our visions for the future. We’ll help founders and researchers tell the stories of the world they want to create, a skill that is as vital as the technology we build.

If you’re interested in participating or you know anyone who might be, apply here!

We’ll also have an online workshop on writing branching narratives on November 12 with Charlene Putney, an award-winning video games writer and creative writing lecturer.

Alexandria lore

• Our first book minted on testnet was Moby Dick.

• Thanks to the Merge, all of our books minted on Ethereum Mainnet will be powered by proof of stake from the very beginning.

For authors

Our waitlist is now open! If you haven’t submitted work before, now is a great time to learn more about our publishing platform. You can learn more and fill out a form to get access here.

Recommended reading

• Science: “How we remember last weekend” on the neuroscience of memory.

• History: The radical history of book clubs.

• Fiction: Lumen by Camille Flammarion. Calliope, our Muse of Epic Poetry, discovered it on her excursion to Medicine for Nightmares in San Francisco. This might be the best bookstore name I’ve ever heard.

Until next time (unless I see you sooner in the shared journal),

Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy