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Key:
➡️ = Written by
🌟 = Guest Post
🎤 = Interview
➡️ Recommended Digital Resources
Roundups
☕ Read every Saturday Morning Coffee post here.
Podcasts
🎧 101: Welcome to the Podcast!
🎧 103: Evelyn Skye on Substack, Storytelling and Sustainability for Writers
🎧 105: Maya Sayvanova on Smarter Solopreneurship, Substack Growth and Writing Clarity
🎧 106: Anna Vatuone on TikTok, Taking Chances and the Power of Personal Branding for Writers
🎧 107: Philip Hofmacher on Community, Entrepreneurship, and a Meaningful Approach to Substack
🎧 108: Sinem Günel on Medium Mastery, Scroll-Stopping Content, and Making Money as a Writer
Online Writing
🌟 How To Fall Back in Love With Your Own Writing
➡️ How Much I Earned From a Viral (Non-Boosted) Story on Medium
➡️ 15 Absolutely Vital Lessons I've Learned as a Working Writer
➡️ Is your creative tank in the red?
🌟 5 Ways New Writers Can Make Money (How I Made $4420 In My 1st Year)
🌟 The Amazing Growth of Bloggers and Influencers (And How to Become One)
🌟 How to Grow on Medium in 2024, Even If You're Starting From Zero
➡️ 10 Things I'd Do Differently If I Started Over
🌟 Building a Personal Platform Online Has Been a Rough Ride
🌟 3 More Ways To Monetise Your Writing (that Will Also Make You A Better Solopreneur)
➡️ Why I'm more interested in writing online than querying these days
➡️ Why Is Community So Important For Writers?
➡️ The 1 Thing That Could Absolutely Make or Break Your Writing Career
🌟 How I Simply Became a 5-Figure Woman Writer Online
🌟 Tips For Building a Sustainable Writing Ecosystem Between Substack & Medium
➡️ How to Use Other People’s Newsletters to Become an Expert in Your Niche
➡️ Your Next Post Might Bomb Without These 4 Headline Components
➡️ Outdated Advice On The Internet Could Derail Your Growth Journey as a Writer
➡️ Use The ‘3 What, 3 How’ Framework for Writing Advice Posts on Any Platform
🌟 How Sinem Günel Became a Full-Time Writer
➡️ The Truth About Those Big Milestone Moments in Writing
🌟 10 Surprising Tips That Make Your Online Writing Ten Times More Memorable
➡️ How to Help Readers Discover Your Writing Online
➡️ Nine headlines that are too good to ignore (and why)
🌟 6 things I’ve learned in 6 years of freelance writing
Books
🌟 5 Creative Ways for Authors to Keep Promoting
➡️ I Finally Told Mum I'm Getting Published
➡️ Here Are The Free Ways I Plan to Promote My Debut Novel This Year
🌟 Changing Pathways to Publication (with Veronica Llorca-Smith)
➡️ How many book queries does it take to land a literary agent?
➡️ If you want to finish your novel, you need a non-negotiable writing space
➡️ Why Character Development is Crucial For The Success of Your Novel
➡️ What’s The Big Idea For Your Novel?
➡️ Why Your Novel Should (And Shouldn’t) Fit A Particular Genre
➡️ How To Prepare Before Writing Your Novel (And Avoid Future Failure)
➡️ I Asked ChatGPT to Write a Novel. Here’s What Happened.
➡️ The Novelist’s 6-Stage Pathway To Publication
➡️ How To ‘Unstick’ Your Writing
➡️ How To Set Realistic Goals for Your Novel (5 Steps To The Finish Line)
🌟 A New Book Launch Every Week
🌟 The Power of Minimalist Books in Today’s Self-Publishing World
Marketing
➡️ The Simplest (and Most Effective) Way to Develop Your Personal Brand as a Writer
🌟 How to Systemize & Monetize Your Personality
➡️ How to Grow Within The Online Community That Grows Your Online Audience
➡️ Every Writer Needs a Platform. Start Building Yours Like This.
➡️ 720 Hours On TikTok For 150 Book Sales. Is This Really The Way?
➡️ How (And Why) To Grow Your Following On Twitter
➡️ Should You Still Pay For Social Media Ads?
➡️ Use The Barnacle Approach to Grow Your Audience
➡️ The Simplest Way to Grow Your Instagram Audience
🌟 9 Things I’ve Learned About Growth & Self-Promotion (From Someone Who Would Rather Just Write)
Mindset
➡️ How to Fortify Your Mind Against Rejection as a Writer
➡️ I Lost an Internal Organ and Gained a Lifelong Purpose
➡️ No-one’s Immune to Rejection
➡️ Thinking About Quitting? You Should Do This First.
🌟 6 Great Ways for Writers to Deal With The Comparison Trap
Interviews
🎤 A Quick Cuppa with Claire Venus
🎤 Interview with a Publisher: Richard Mayers (Burton Mayers Books)
🎤 Author Interview: Melanie Reynard
🎤 Author Interview: Jess Wilkinson
🎤 Author Interview: Eve Koguce
🎤 Author Interview: Anthony Di Angelo
🎤 Author Interview: AK Cooper-Elliot
🎤 Author Interview: Nicolette Fuller
🎤 Author Interview: Gareth L. Powell
🎤 Author Interview: Travis Smith
🎤 Author Interview: Adam Shardlow
🎤 Behind The Scenes With TV Writer and Showrunner Michael Jamin
Deep Dives
➡️ This Writer Made $100,000 Last Year in Her Spare Time
➡️ This Self-Published Writer Sold 10 Million Books in the Last 10 Years
Substack
➡️ How I Grew My Substack Audience by Over 1,400 Subscribers in Under 2 Months
➡️ Why the heck have I changed the name of my publication?
➡️ 6 Ways to Become Notable on Substack by Boosting Your Visibility
➡️ My First 12 Months on Substack
🌟 After 60 Days on Substack, I Think I've Found the Best Platform for Writers
🌟 4 Proven Strategies to Become a Substack Bestseller in 2024
🌟 No Following? No Problem (How I Went From 0 to 1.2k Subscribers in 3 months)
➡️ 5 Key Lessons From My 10,000-Subscriber Growth Journey on Substack
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Wow! Thanks a million! Bookmarked ... looking forward to sifting through all of this information! Appreciate it!
YES! What an awesome contribution to the Substack world! This is super useful, thanks!