Substack Live Podcast

I love getting to do this with all of you. This goal-setting session is the best 40 minutes you can spend. I’m not just saying that. I did it this morning, too. Participating in this session will transform the next three months for you. Let me guide you for 40 minutes. You’ll leave knowing what matters to you and who you want to become; where to focus; and where to spend your time, attention, ener...

So many writers want to be featured by Substack. It can bring thousands of new subscribers. Being featured signals you're producing authentic work, not AI content. It puts you in excellent company with other quality creators. Today, we're talking about the one thing that actually matters for Substack success—and it's not posting more, growing faster, or any of the surface-level tactics everyone's...

Subscribe to Substack Writers at Work: www.substackwritersatwork.com Today, we talk about subvocalization and how important it is to reading and voice and how important it is to writing. Voice is one of the hardest craft skills to teach and learn. If more Substack writers and authors had it, a lot more of them would be earning an income. The most profound subvocalization-causing effects—your authe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.substackwritersatwork.com Thank you Joy Sullivan , Jo Hutton , Dr Kondrot , Beth Spencer , Diana Spechler , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.

To listen to the full episode, join us at Substack Writers at Work! https://www.substackwritersatwork.com/ In today's episode: Learn how to grow your Substack with live shows, discover author success secrets from Jason Chatfield & Mikala Jamison, plus March's top engagement strategies from Substack's leading expert. 00:00 Introduction and Welcome 01:15 Meet the Guests: Mikayla Jamison 02:26 Meet t...

Live Substack Office Hours . Your Substack questions answered. Become a paid subscriber to Substack Writers at Work: www.writersatwork.net/subscribe . Yet another way SW@W is here to help you be your amazing self on Substack. Who? * Me, you, all of us. What? * Your Substack questions answered. When? * I’ll announce the day and time of each live Substack Office Hours every Tuesday in that week’s po...

I had the opportunity to sit down with Hamish McKenzie , co-founder of Substack. I’m so happy to bring you our conversation. It was really illuminating and feels like the best thing I can give you as a Substack writer or creator. Many people don’t understand or know who the people behind Substack are. Hamish and all the people who work at Substack are some of the best, most idealistic people I’ve...

Subscribe to Substack Writers at Work : www.writersatwork.net . I’m so pleased to bring you my interview with Laurie Stone. She writes the literary Substack  Everything Is Personal. In this conversation, we talk about how she grew her Substack so quickly —plus her writing process, her approach to “marketing,” Notes, publishing, the nature of narrative, and how she seduces the reader. She also shar...

To upgrade to listen on Apple, go to www.writersatwork.net/subscribe . Hello, Substack Writers at Work! Every once in a while we start to feel like we’re either in a holding pattern on Substack or it’s just not working. Your subscriber numbers are stagnant. They go up and go down—or they just go down. No one likes or restacks your posts. Every morning, you wake up and tell your cats, “It’s not wor...

To upgrade to listen on Apple, go to www.writersatwork.net/subscribe . I’ve worked one-to-one with over 250 people—helping them succeed on Substack. That means I’ve been behind a lot of dashboards and mentored a lot of different people—with different interests and goals—to * double and triple and quadruple and septuple their subscribers, * substantially increase their revenue, * build a readership...

To upgrade to listen on Apple, go to www.writersatwork.net/subscribe . Happy Tuesday! Please read the intro as I forgot to record one! This interview is a concise rundown of the realities of being an author in a publicity-driven world. Courtney Maum is quite possibly the only person who could bring it to us. You might think of there being two eras: BCM (before ) and ACM (after Courtney Maum). Befo...

To upgrade to listen on Apple, go to www.writersatwork.net/subscribe . On the go? Listen to this on the Substack Writers at Work podcast here! This is the best fifty-two minutes you can spend. This Q&A with the amazing Sophia Efthimiatou, Substack’s Head of Writer Relations, will fill you with inspiration, optimism, and a true appreciation for Substack and how much it’s doing for us. Sometimes it...

To upgrade to listen on Apple, go to www.writersatwork.net/subscribe . I will save you from spending years flailing around on Substack, trying to figure out the platform, and not getting any traction. Book a single meeting: Or a discounted 3-meeting package to get $25 off: Substack is the best platform for writers—financially, professionally, and artistically—and the hardest to succeed on. Don’t d...

To upgrade to listen on Apple, go to www.writersatwork.net/subscribe . On the go? Listen to the audio. If you aren’t a subscriber, become one (!) to master the art and business of being on Substack. On to the reason why so many writers feel bad about promoting their work and why they shouldn’t… For many creative writers, publicity is something to be avoided lest someone accuse them of “self-promot...

To upgrade to listen on Apple, go to www.writersatwork.net/subscribe . A bonus for you for the weekend! If you’re serializing or thinking about serializing your book (or possible book), I go through the entire process and what to consider on the Become a Writer Today podcast with Bryan Collins. Bryan is great. We talk about all things serialization and “becoming an author,” including my trajectory...