Welcome to the forum Wired Gambler. Your site looks nice and minimal. What platform you have used for the site. It looks like a blogsite to me by the way. Is this a wordpress?

Regrading subscriptions in your email list, I think this is something you should not ask. Maintaining a site requires a lot of efforts and once the site will have valuable contents, visitors will start subscribing to your newsletter for the update of the next post.