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Season 4, episode 6 is here!
Nathan Baugh has wanted to write fantasy his whole life.
These days he has over 100k Substack subscribers, a successful ghostwriting agency, and a novel coming out in a couple of months. We talked about all of it.
What we covered:
The moment in Spain when the bank account started going in the wrong direction and writing went from something Nathan loved to something he urgently needed to figure out.
Why fiction writing and newsletter writing share a flaw that almost nobody talks about, and how cutting the beginning of your work tends to fix both.
Nathan’s take on where self-publishing is headed now that anyone can produce eight books a month with an AI tool.
What querying agents actually taught him about his first book that he couldn’t have learned any other way.
The world building advice his editor gave him that sounds almost too simple, but saved him a serious amount of pain.
Why the most attractive ways to make money from writing are often not the fastest, and what he’d tell someone starting from zero right now.
What his close rate on new clients tells him about whether his prices are set correctly.
You can find Nathan and his newsletter World Builders on Substack.
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