Welcome to Katie Speaks!
What is all of this about?
If you’re reading this, it means I’ve actually gone and launched this thing - hooray (!!) but also, terrifying.
I’ve been a journalist since I was 16, first writing for a local music blog that was looking for contributors - which then shut down as soon as I wrote my first piece for them. I still think the editor thought I was too good for them, and as there is no traceable evidence of the site ever existing, we will consider my opinion a fact. Since then, I've worked for so many publications, before landing where I am now, where I write for DIY, The Telegraph, The Forty Five, Indie is not a Genre, and Come Play With Me.
“So why start your own thing now?”
Despite doing this thing since I was 16, I’ve never actually written for myself. I’ve never been my own editor, I’ve never not had my thoughts be shortened due to a word count (and trust me, I have a lot of them), and I’ve always been subject to a house style. So I thought, why not give myself a space where I can have the freedom to write about what I want and when I want to? No word count to box me into, no editing, just my unfiltered, raw thoughts.
“So what are you going to write about?”
Music.
But the pieces you get here, won’t be available anywhere else.
Longform, pieces, possibly rants, about music, the music industry, and society.
My main love has always been feature pieces, and angry opinion pieces, and I’m going to use Katie Speaks! to enable me to write more of them.
“How is this going to work?”
By subscribing to Katie Speaks! you’re enabling me to rant in your email inbox, every week (hopefully), covering whatever is racking my brain at the time.
Are you in?