Saturday Morning Coffee ☕ Edition #21

It's time for summer coffee.

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☕ Good morning, my friends.

How’s June treating you so far?

Just a heads-up: I’ll be tweaking my publishing schedule from next week onwards. Instead of two weekly HTWFAL posts and a weekend roundup, I’ll be putting out one midweek post and combining the second with Saturday Morning Coffee, giving you something meatier to read at the weekend and [hopefully] reducing your midweek overwhelm. Fewer posts, same reading time.

Speaking of posts,

Maya Sayvanova

invited me to write a guest piece for her wonderful publication, Smarter Solopreneurs. You can read it right here:

How to finish things & achieve big goals

My debut novel, The Soulburn Talisman, is now available for purchase… and the first reviews are in! See what others have been saying about it here:

What Readers Are Saying About 'The Soulburn Talisman'

You can order your copy of Soulburn by clicking below:

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Some interesting thoughts from others:

• A Simple Idea To Front-load Your Paid Subscription Strategy by

  Kristi Keller

• The Truth About Self-Publishing Books by

  J.R. Heimbigner

• Getting paid to do the work you love is like retiring early by

  Alex Mathers

• How to "surprise and delight" your publisher by

  Leigh Stein

• Illusions and Harsh Reality on Substack by

  Thaddeus Thomas

• 10 alternative ways to make an income by

  Lucy Werner

• How to Get Your Characters to Reveal More by

  Mary Carroll Moore

• Tiny Worlds: How a nature illustrator and author built a fanbase for her work by

  Jessica Lahey

• Creating a sustainable Substack content plan that doesn’t take up a ton of time by

  Claire Tak

• Is succeeding in publishing a moonshot? by

  Alyssa Matesic
  and
  Jenna Satterthwaite

• If Normal People Did "Nightmare Mode" for 30 Days, They'd Achieve More than Most Accomplish in a Year by

  Tim Denning

• From Beginner to Substack Bestseller | Interview with Valentin Bunea by

  Kristina God

• All the Books I May Never Write by

  Jeff Goins

• "Hey, Can You Read This for Me?" by

  George Saunders

• Social Media's Death Spiral by

  Stephen Moore

Contributions from our Full Members:

• A carrot, she says by

  Julie

• How Curiosity Becomes the Driver towards Emotional Intelligence by

  Gunnar Habitz

• Black-ish by

  Chantelle Braham

• Mysterious Finding on a Blood Test by

  Julia Dyviniak

• What's the best content platform FOR YOU? by

  Alberto Cabas Vidani

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