Writer MBA 2024 virtual summit debrief
Wherein I spill all the tea about our latest virtual summit event.
How Wannabe Press is structured
I share the org chart of my company, which is more complex then you might think
Magic - Chapter 62
There was only one person who I knew had hired the Firestarter before, and I’d sworn the next time I saw that smarmy rat, I’d kill him.
![[DIGEST] Feeding people poisonous ice cream is prolly a bad business decision...](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e0/18/e01810d0-06e7-403a-84f3-9a3bba47c6b1/content/images/size/w600/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/c7ac638b-76aa-4d69-9b39-54f9af294f76_4032x3024.jpg)
[DIGEST] Feeding people poisonous ice cream is prolly a bad business decision...
Your weekly stackable roundup
Ad reports from growth agency
If you want to know the week-by-week play-by-play of my ads growth journey, here are the raw reports.
WTF happened in the last two weeks...
...and what god can I sacrifice a goat to make amends?
Magic - Chapter 61
I bent down closer to the bile lake. It smelled as foul as the souls piled high all through Hell.
![[DIGEST] Free vs. paid](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e0/18/e01810d0-06e7-403a-84f3-9a3bba47c6b1/content/images/size/w600/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/4749920e-9a54-4a09-94c9-1ecd9f5fda86_4032x3024.jpg)
Magic - Chapter 60
There was only one person who I knew had hired the Firestarter before, and I’d sworn the next time I saw that smarmy rat, I’d kill him.
![[DIGEST] The four main stages of Substack growth...](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e0/18/e01810d0-06e7-403a-84f3-9a3bba47c6b1/content/images/size/w600/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/6339513c-7d9a-4476-ad20-358c814e3b0e_4032x3024.jpg)
[DIGEST] The four main stages of Substack growth...
Your weekly stackable roundup
How to comp subscribers from your previous newsletter to your Substack publication
On April 28th, 2023, I comped 25,000 subscribers from my previous mailing list to The Author Stack. Since then many people have asked me how I did it.
I have things to say about how creators talk about NSFW books
I recently did my first NSFW comic and how we talk about them is not okay.
Substack Milestone posts
Here are all my monthly and important milestone posts in one place. I'm not curating this very well, but I'll keep it as current as I can.
Magic - Chapter 59
We had descended for miles before they finally threw Aimee and me into our cells.
![[DIGEST] My bet...](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e0/18/e01810d0-06e7-403a-84f3-9a3bba47c6b1/content/images/size/w600/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/311b6268-6539-45c2-a9fd-dd8b7b97764b_4032x3024.jpg)
How to compile your blog into a book
I’ve released multiple solo nonfiction books up to this point in my career and most of them were compiled almost exclusively or primarily through repurposing blog articles and Facebook posts.
Objectively good and subjectively your jam...
People ask me often how I get over bad reviews and keep going even when people are unimaginably cruel. It all goes back to a simple parsing of semantics we aren't taught in school.
Magic - Chapter 58
The stench of charred flesh filled my nostrils as we made our way down the dirt roads of Hell.
![[DIGEST] Do books make money?](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e0/18/e01810d0-06e7-403a-84f3-9a3bba47c6b1/content/images/size/w600/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/4a5a0cd2-f6e2-4778-bbb1-7d83b04c5bf5_4032x3024.jpg)
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.