This is, as far as I can tell, a marriage of two concepts for independent content production that has never been tried before.

One is a book, my second, called Two Tribes. It tells the story of rugby league’s divided year in 1997 and the birth of the all-conquering National Rugby League in Australasia.

The book was released on October 4, 2021.

Two is Substack, the platform you are now staring at. It is intended to support independent writers and journalists by having them sell subscriptions to their work, bypassing big media brands and ads.

The way I married them together was that for one US$45 payment, you got a copy of Two Tribes when it came out, a copy of my first book Touchstones immediately and content right up until December 19, 2022 - the 25th anniversary of the formation of the NRL.

I think that’s was good value. You can still buy a book here.

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