#maastastic

• We need hope, or else we cannot endure. •

So my understanding is that Sarah is going to be on one or maybe more full podcast episodes (which will be free and I’m guessing available on the normal podcast platforms), and then she’ll also do some exclusive interviews and mini-episodes for certain patreon subscribers! Most of the podcast episodes will just be Steph and Ava, and maybe other guests occasionally?

They changed the name from maastastic to fandomtastic early on (I think because Bloomsbury was like, NOPE!, though I could be assuming wrong there). I don’t know exactly what happened, but they haven’t produced a podcast since January (but really no content since 2022). Their discord for patreon members hasn’t been active since late 2021 really, and it appears their patreon is still up but the last post was in March. (I hope no one is continuing to pay them $5/month for zero content.)

It was ultimately a racket and I think they got called out on it, people left, and ultimately they just stopped getting the revenue they needed to continue. They were charging people up to $20 a month tho, promising exclusive interviews with authors like SJM and the chance to ask then questions and signed giveaways etc., and then basically had one or two interviews and that’s it. And produced some podcasts. They took A LOT of hard earned money from fans and basically scammed them using Sarah’s name and Steph’s connection to Sarah as a draw. Shame on them.

Also as an aside, they created a discord that was supposed to be a safe space for all fans and then refused to moderate it and let certain fans, particularly elriels (me included), be attacked and disparaged in there and did nothing. Refused to respond to DMs about it or actually, you know, moderate for the people that were paying them to create this “safe” space.