A real trip, shown as a sample. The Endpaper Society’s October 2027 Yorkshire escape, published so Hosting Guild members can see the whole flow. Page 4 of 6 — the Q&A invitation. Its only job is to get the call onto her calendar, not to get her to sign up.

Open call · Everyone welcome · No sign-up

Ask me anything about Yorkshire.

A live call, before anyone commits. The cost, the rooms, the reading, coming on your own. Bring a question, or just listen to everyone else’s.

Who you’ll be talking to

Stacy Earl, smiling, in teal glasses and a green top.
Stacy Earl — The Endpaper Society

I lived in Killinghall, the village next to Ripley, and I’ll be there the whole week. Ask me anything — including the questions you’d feel awkward putting in an email.

What people usually ask

What it actually costs

What the price covers, what it doesn’t, and how the deposit and installments work.

Coming on my own

Most people do. How the five months of reading means you arrive knowing everyone.

The reading

Five books, two calls a month. What happens if life gets busy in July.

The Boar’s Head

The rooms, the inn, and what a week on the Ripley Castle estate is like.

Want a reminder?

Completely optional — you can just turn up. Leave your email and I’ll send one note the day before.

Eight spots. Wine in the ruins.

The cohort locks in April 2027.

Email me the itinerary Choose your room

For Hosting Guild members

Why this page is built the way it is

  1. The calendar button comes before the reminder form. A Q&A lives or dies on whether it makes it onto her calendar. An email address is nice to have. So the calendar is the big button, and the form is labelled optional.
  2. The Zoom link only appears while the call is on. Before the call the page offers the calendar; for the hour it’s running it shows a join button; afterwards it offers to email her the itinerary. Nobody clicks a link on the wrong Tuesday and decides it was canceled.
  3. The link lives in the calendar entry itself. Calendar apps spot a meeting link and put a Join button right on the reminder, which is exactly where she’ll be looking at the time of the call.
  4. “What people usually ask” names the questions without answering them. It tells her that her question isn’t a silly one, and gives her a reason to turn up to hear the answer.