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I write a regular email newsletter called Marty’s Magic Ruseletter. It’s for serious students of magic. One or two emails a month. Early access to new tutorials, the odd thing I won’t publish anywhere else, and a growing pile of secrets for paid subscribers.

More than half of everything I write is free to read. No paywall, no password, no catch.

Free to join—and free is genuinely good. You have my sincere promise; I’m an honest deceiver!

Rather see one before you commit? Read “Monthly Update #1”.

What You Get

New close-up magic. I share at least one original, unpublished trick a month, written up properly so you can learn it, practise it and perform it as quickly as possible without watching a three-hour video tutorial!

Early access to trick tutorials. Subscribers usually get to the new magic first. Sometimes by a good while.

Ruseletter-only articles. Some things I write never make it onto the blog at all. If you want to read everything I write, you need to subscribe to the Ruseletter.

Magic history and theory. Where the classics came from, who invented what, and ideas and insights that will make you a better performer.

Unpublished ebooks, chapter by chapter—for paid subscribers. More on that below.

One email a month—no spam. No drip sequences, no “just checking in”, no thirteen-part onboarding funnel. Unsubscribe whenever you like, and I promise not to take it personally. 

Free or Paid—You’re Welcome Either Way

Most of what I publish is free, and that isn’t going to change. Every monthly update is outside the paywall, and for my regular Ruseletter articles I use a “freeven” model: every even-numbered article is free to read.

On top of that, Legends of Legerdemain and Obscure Origins are free in their entirety, permanently. Magic history shouldn’t sit behind a paywall—I want every magician who’s curious about where this stuff came from to be able to read it, young or old, whatever they can afford.

	Free	Paid
Monthly Ruseletter, every issue	✅	✅
Monthly preview of what’s coming	✅	✅
Every even-numbered article (“freeven”)	✅	✅
Legends of Legerdemain, all of it	✅	✅
Obscure Origins, all of it	✅	✅
Odd-numbered articles	—	✅
The perks page—every hidden tutorial on the blog, no passwords	—	✅
The books as I draft them, with comment access	—	✅

If you never pay me a penny, you’ll still get the monthly newsletter, the free previews, half the tricks and all of the history. Paying means you get everything rather than half, and the satisfaction that you’re directly supporting my writing.

If You Want the Lot

A paid subscription is $5 (£4) a month, or $50 (£40) a year—which works out as two months free.

You’re not buying an empty promise. The perks page already indexes every trick I’ve written up on the blog, so the back catalogue opens the moment you subscribe. Everything I publish from then on is included too.

It also pays for the free half. Paid subscribers are the reason most of what I write stays open to everybody.

And if a subscription isn’t for you but you’d still like to chip in, you can always buy me a coffee. ☕

The Books, While I’m Still Writing Them

Developing Daley is a four-volume treatise on Dr. Daley’s Last Trick. Volume 1 is drafted—an analysis of the plot, ten basic handlings and twelve variations—and rather than sit on it until it’s finished, I’m releasing it a chapter at a time as I write it. Paid subscribers are reading it before it exists as a finished book.

If a handling is unclear or you want to suggest an alternative way of doing something, you can add a comment to the Google Doc. Anyone who helps me improve the book will receive a credit in the final edition (if they want it, of course).

I’m also writing another book—Great Magicians Grow Moustaches 🥸—which will focus on card tricks with unusual and offbeat presentations. I’m currently re-thinking its shape, because it turns out self-publishing a large instructional manual for magicians is considerably harder than writing a blog!

When either book is finished, I’ll publish it properly, as an ebook and perhaps in print (depending on demand). Either way, you keep the web copy. Forever. No second purchase, no “upgrade to the full edition”. I promise to never make you pay twice for the same thing.

A Note on Treasure Hunts

A handful of secrets on this site will stay hidden no matter what you subscribe to. That’s deliberate. I like treasure hunts, and I suspect you might too.

And Finally

And finally, and most importantly, you’ll earn my undying gratitude for reading what I write!

No spam. One or two emails a month. Unsubscribe any time.