Magic - Chapter 65
The entrance of the castle was guarded by nothing but several empty suits of armor, as dusty and discarded as the rest of the castle. Black bones and skulls adorned the huge doors.
Magic - Chapter 64
Inky blackness collapsed all around me. My eyes generally adjusted to the darkness quickly, but the blackness in this place was unyielding.
![[DIGEST] "What if somebody steals my work?"](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e0/18/e01810d0-06e7-403a-84f3-9a3bba47c6b1/content/images/size/w600/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/0114a995-c039-4b3f-80f3-14032bb905b2_4032x3024.jpg)
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?
Magic - Chapter 63
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] Success = intention + time](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e0/18/e01810d0-06e7-403a-84f3-9a3bba47c6b1/content/images/size/w600/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/fcacfdc1-e32a-467a-a6c0-7ececd9e8569_4032x3024.jpg)
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.
Wannabe Press Income Report - Q1 - 2024
Who needs a publishing company when you can consult and make more money? Me, I do.
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.