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Business clarity for chaos-minded creators.
Will that new social media platform fundamentally improve your existence at all?
Research shows that social media generally does more harm than good, but is a way to use it in a healthy manner to grow your author business?
How to get 5,000-20,000 new readers for your Substack publication every month
This is the strategy responsible for adding over 100,000 new emails to my list in a very short timeframe and allowing me to create a sustainable business without relying on social media
Everything you might want to know about my African photo safari in Tanzania (with loads of pics)
After five years of planning, this is everything I learned about going on safari.
How to create a world-class Substack publication
or how you can stop worrying and fall in love with marketing
How to build a substantial body of work that allows you to fight imposter syndrome without burning out
Level up your writing career without burning out, destroying your life in the process, or having no life outside your work
When to burn it all down and how to rise from the ashes
I made $50,000 more last year than any other year in my whole career, and I nearly had a nervous breakdown trying to keep it all together.
3 reasons why (despite 10+ years with direct sales) I don’t use Shopify or recommend it for most authors
After spending over 10 years and making hundreds of thousands of dollars with direct sales, I can unequivocally say Shopify is not for me...and it might not be for you, either.
Where to invest your time and money when building an audience for your writing
How to grow a dedicated audience for your writing fast without breaking the bank or wasting your entire existence in the pursuit of more humans to care about what you do
How to use Substack sections to strengthen your backlist and give subscribers even more value
Are you interested in delivering even more value to your subscribers while leveraging your backlist? Then this might be the perfect strategy for you...
How to fall in love with book marketing
A new way to think about building a thriving reader community and crafting a career that better aligns with your natural rhythms...
Is it even possible to be a writer AND happy at the same time?
Yes, but you have to change your relationship to success, money, and data in order to make it happen.
How to survive as a writer in a capitalist dystopia
Everything is the worst, and there's not sign of it getting better anytime soon. Is there any way to keep our creative spark alive while being pulled in a thousand direction every minute of the day?
How to improve your mental state by embracing neutral thinking
The biggest mental shift I've ever made is understanding that things don't have to be great or terrible. They can just be.
The future of publishing could be a beautiful utopia, but we have to fight for it to exist first
I have been thinking about the future of publishing for years, and I can almost see it.
What if the skills that made you a successful writer start to ruin your life?
I used to make most of my money at shows, but after COVID doing them is literally killing me. How can you keep your author business afloat when the skills you relied on start destroying you?
What chronic illness can teach us about conserving our energy for what matters and taking imperfect action
I have been chronically ill for 20+ years and it's made me a better writer and a better human...even though it's endlessly frustrating
