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 to build an email sequence for a book launch
In this article, I’m going to explain how you can send emails daily during a book launch without pissing off your audience, and give you the exact sequence I used along the way.
Magic - Chapter 53
My mother would say I was a damned fool for working with the government, but I had been a fool for less than ten million dollars before—a lot less.
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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?
Magic - Chapter 52
The tunnel had collapsed behind us and the track beneath us disappeared, leaving Lily to crash two feet onto the ground.
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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
How to get over your sales phobia
If you want to sell more of your products, you must master two things: The thing you are good at and sales.
Magic - Chapter 51
The Firestarter led me through the woods south of Seattle. We were deep in the thicket with only the sounds of nature for company, and she wasn’t much of a talker.
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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.
Magic - Chapter 50
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.
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“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.
Magic - Chapter 49
I waited out front of the bar until the next morning, watching angelic and demonic pairs leaving the bar together like old friends.
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