Good luck with getting a lot of discussions going. I to try to do this, but everyone has become so conditioned to just comment on the social media links.
There's also the issue that it's currently the PC thing to do to leave Substack and refuse to give them any of your money, even to support creators you like. I disagree with this, but it's a thing.
Geekerati is a good name. The only reason to change would be if your focus narrowed.
You have a similar dilemma to mine -- clear expertise in one given field (non-video games for you, movies for me) but the desire not to be kept solely in that niche. Marketing-wise, it's harder to say "Not everything fits into the same premise on my site" than "I write about X," where X is one thing. People looking for, say, TV reviews, aren't going to come to a site that only does them very occasionally just for that. And people who come for the RPG content may not care about older movies at all.
Yet we aren't looking to realistically make a huge profit -- that model's gone. I'm a believer in writing what you want to write about, because that will be better in the end, and possibly grow readership longterm rather than chasing quick hits. If you were doing 100% game content, I'd say change it to Gamerati or something, but you aren't. Given the books you review, though, I'd suggest that if you do change the name, try to get the keyword "pulp" in there somehow.
Honestly, maybe the Geekshelf concept and name could be expanded slightly to include everything you do without much adjustment.
If you can bear it, you might want to consider shortform video as well.
I'm fond of the name but would understand if you changed it!
So far the voting is telling me that my impostor syndrome was very much in the wrong.
Lots of grist for the mill. Hope you can sort it out somewhat.
Good luck with getting a lot of discussions going. I to try to do this, but everyone has become so conditioned to just comment on the social media links.
There's also the issue that it's currently the PC thing to do to leave Substack and refuse to give them any of your money, even to support creators you like. I disagree with this, but it's a thing.
Geekerati is a good name. The only reason to change would be if your focus narrowed.
I think this is the right take and I don't think I want to narrow the focus.
You have a similar dilemma to mine -- clear expertise in one given field (non-video games for you, movies for me) but the desire not to be kept solely in that niche. Marketing-wise, it's harder to say "Not everything fits into the same premise on my site" than "I write about X," where X is one thing. People looking for, say, TV reviews, aren't going to come to a site that only does them very occasionally just for that. And people who come for the RPG content may not care about older movies at all.
Yet we aren't looking to realistically make a huge profit -- that model's gone. I'm a believer in writing what you want to write about, because that will be better in the end, and possibly grow readership longterm rather than chasing quick hits. If you were doing 100% game content, I'd say change it to Gamerati or something, but you aren't. Given the books you review, though, I'd suggest that if you do change the name, try to get the keyword "pulp" in there somehow.
Honestly, maybe the Geekshelf concept and name could be expanded slightly to include everything you do without much adjustment.
If you can bear it, you might want to consider shortform video as well.
I like how you laid out the survey with links to examples.