How I Make Money Writing
Hao Nguyen, James Fell, Simon K Jones, Andrew Zaleski, Amanda E. Machado, Safia Elhillo, Mattha, Tobias Jones, Boo Walker, Kerry Donoghue, Jenessa Abrams, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, cassandra neyeneschHonest conversations with working writers about how they make money.
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Interview #226: How Jamier Boatman-Harrell Makes Money Writing
In this interview, Jamier explains how earning a salary gave him the freedom to stop treating his writing like a side hustle.
Jamier Boatman-Harrell is a New York-based creative director and fiction writer. While he originally moved to the...
Interview #225: How Joy McCullough Makes Money Writing
In this interview, Joy describes the never-ending hustle of the working writer, where having four books out in one year doesn't guarantee a job the next.
Joy McCullough has the kind of biography that many aspiring writers dream of: a New Y...
Interview #224: How Amanda E. Machado Makes Money Writing
In this interview, Amanda explains how the rise of AI and the defunding of government grants decimated their writing income.
Amanda E. Machado is a queer nonbinary Latine writer, facilitator, and the founder of the Reclaiming Nature Writin...
Interview #223: How Jen Kirby Makes Money Writing
In this interview, Jen explains how ghostwriting a memoir provides the financial baseline required to survive the unpredictable media industry.
Jen Kirby is an independent freelance journalist currently based in Rome who covers foreign pol...
Interview #222: How Anders Nilsen Makes Money Writing
In this interview, Anders shares his shell game of using grants and pre-orders to fund massive art projects.
Anders Nilsen is the award-winning artist and author behind acclaimed graphic novels like Big Questions, The End, and Tongues. Ove...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I talk to writers about how they make money.
Sweary historian. He/Him.
Writing and publishing serial fiction for over 10 years. Helping people write more. I wrote a weekly scifi/fantasy/crime serial here for over 4 years. Comms Manager at Creative PEC. European. Based in Norwich.
Amanda E. Machado is a Latine writer and facilitator who writes on Latine ancestry, survivorship, queerness, nature, and the intersections between race, travel, and outdoor recreation.
poet
I’m a journalist who reports on health, drugs/psychedelics, and subculture
Writer, listener, teacher, carpenter
16 novels; millions sold. A backstage pass to my mind, my books, and the creative life. Join me as I diagnose the heart of storytelling and share curated picks in books, film, TV, & music for the open-minded soul searcher. All are welcome here.
Author of the short story collection, MOUTH. Obsessed with consumption.
literary critic, essayist, novel-in-progress, director of lecture/performance series, narrative medicine rounds at columbia university https://linktr.ee/jenessaabrams
Writer. Author of 'Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, And Why It Matters'. 'Franklin-Wells' - The New Yorker
I'm a fiction writer, cultural critic, and curator of shows and events centering bodily autonomy
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