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Monday at 1:15 p.m. CT I’m going live on Substack to talk about what happens when a publication stops fitting the person writing it, and what’s next for The Publishing Spectrum. If you’ve ever felt that mismatch, that inner tension, inside...
I have a fairly simple claim about Substack Notes: I think they become remarkably boring when we treat them as a place to talk about the thing we want somebody to read. And over time, I think creating Notes like this can become creat...
On Sept. 16, 1918, Charles Raymond Bray was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
A veteran of WWII and the Vietnam and Korean wars, he chose not to talk much about what he saw overseas. It’s just not what folks from his generation did.
Lo...
I invited who writes Writer, interrupted, to talk about the experience of writing something versus publishing it — because I’m eager for us to start unpacking the ocean of inner experience that shows up between the moment we write somethin...
If promoting your work on Substack tends to leave you overwhelmed, vaguely resistant or wondering whether you’re supposed to become an entirely different person in order to do it well, this conversation is for you.
We spend the first part...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Publishing advisor, longtime editor, autistic. Mother to Evagene. Aspiring poet. Outside Substack, I help authors develop editorial discernment, navigate creative change and grow their newsletters in The Publication Studio.
I do the data and I read stuff
Navigating life after my husband died, grief opened my heart. I learned it’s never too late to do what you love. Join me at Writer, interrupted. A bestselling Substack Featured (twice!) Publication.
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