Daily newsletter testing
In which I keep you updated on the testing and implementation of my daily newsletter, Authoresque.
Should you "write short"?
Ever since I joined Substack, the best practice I have heard was to “write short”. It started as shorter than 1,500 words, and then it reduced to 800-1,100 words. Is that good advice, though?
The new Super Nintendo World at Universal Hollywood is peak late-stage capitalism
Maybe I'm an old man shaking my fist at coulds, but Mario Land hits different than the rest of even Universal, let alone amusement parks, and feels like the start of something ominous.
Craft+Commerce lessons
What I learned from going to my first general business conference after attending 200+ publishing events in my career.
If a tree falls in your front yard...
I can tell you from personal experience that it absolutely makes a sound.
What do we owe to each other?
If it's hard and time-consuming and people often don't even appreciate help, so why do it? Why reach out?
How to network at a conference
I am very good at networking at conferences, probably because I've been to so many. Networking doesn't have to be a heavy burden. It can be light and fun. In fact, it should be.
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
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?
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.
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.
Notes on Cal Newport's Slow Productivity
I don't take the best notes, but I do have them.
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.
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?
The things you cannot influence
How creating your own podcasts, events, and publishing ventures can rapidly grow your audience and supercharge your creative career.
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.
Why (and how) I fell back in love with advertising
How I stopped fighting and learned to fall in love with spending money on ads for my publication.
The Obsidian Spindle Saga: Complete portal fantasy series Kickstarter breakdown
I do wrapups of all my campaigns, and usually they are positive, but the last one kind of cratered. So, what happened?