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Beyond Bestsellers: Yes, People Still Buy Books
Why I Still Believe in Publishing Despite its Flaws
Year 2 on Substack: Creating Sustainable Growth (part 1)
Months ago, a writer friend of mine asked me if it was worth it to start a Substack. Like me, she was working on a memoir. I told her yes, but it's a bit more complicated than all that.
How to build a sustainable and profitable subscription into your business
Having consistent income every month helps create safety, but how can we build that recurring revenue when it feels impossible to get anyone interested in peeking behind the paywall.
Writing doesn't follow a path
Life happens and learning to accept that can sometimes turn a disaster into something even better. This is true of our writing as well.
Selling one million books with international bestselling author Jodi Taylor
Jodi Taylor is the author of the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary’s series, the story of a bunch of disaster-prone historians who investigate major historical events in contemporary time.
Notes on Cal Newport's Slow Productivity
I don't take the best notes, but I do have them.
Creating Accessible Content: Don’t Miss Out on Connecting with Your Audience
Seven Tips to Get You Started
DAMSEL: Movie vs. Book
Why the novel and Netflix film are so similar, yet so very different
How I Accidentally Published an Activity Book For Kids
(Or, How I Learned I Am More Capable of This Writing Thing Than I Gave Myself Credit For)
Hold tight to your golden thread
How to stay oriented in the Substack wilderness
Find your writing peers
How to overcome our imposter syndrome and fears to find other writers who support us without collapsing into a ball of anxiety.
The domestic maid trope in The Housemaid
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden has been burning up the thriller charts on vendors for the last few years. What can it teach us about tropes, though?
How can we survive and thrive in the new media landscape?
The same things that saved us in the old media environment will save us in the new media environment.
Birthing a Substack and giving it life with doula Nikko Kennedy
Nikko Kennedy is a perinatal quantum biology practitioner and certified labor and postpartum doula with a B.S. in Biopsychology. She is the mother of 4 children and lives with her husband in Oregon
Short circuiting the Substack burnout cycle
It seems like writers have a six-month burn rate where they come in excited, start to build, grind, and burn out. How do we live better lives in the meat grinder of capitalism?
Empower vulnerability with your audience
What does it mean to be truly vulnerable? Today's newsletter is about the moment I opened up about the one thing I had always felt so ashamed about.
What I Would Tell My Younger Self
About halfway through my first year as a yearbook adviser, I got a sinking sense of loss: why hadn’t
Writing Books for Netflix, Disney, Lucasfilm, and More
How to get paid for writing stories about pop culture's most beloved worlds, from the New York Times bestselling author of DAMSEL
Why I'm Kickstarting my new book
It's not about money. It's about playing a bigger and better game.
The things you cannot influence
How creating your own podcasts, events, and publishing ventures can rapidly grow your audience and supercharge your creative career.
“My Name Is Satya And I Am A Substackaholic.”
How to get the best out of Substack without falling into compulsion
Memoirs have tropes?! Trope lessons from Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
In praise of Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult's use of tropes to develop an effective message around your memoir and bring your readers into the story quickly.
Why (and how) to do a roundup
The point of a roundup is to create community and highlight other people on Substack that your readers should also read to help you grow your network and your publication.