Sitemap - 2023 - The Author Stack

The Other Side of Publishing: An Interview with Russell Nohelty

[DIGEST] Dead week...

A Sustainable Substack

7 Reasons Why All Authors Should Use Universal Book Links

How to print books for fun and profit

Magic - Chapter 40

Holiday Tour Day 12: The Author Stack and Cedar's

Paradise

I'll Kill You

Screw this webcomic

[DIGEST] It's Christmas Tim...

The Little Bird and The Little Worm

We're Entering the Age of the Iconoclast Writer

May December: Tabloids, Trauma and Tolstoy in the Age Gap Trope

Conventions, conferences, and book signings for every Author Ecosystem

Magic - Chapter 39

Art and Mental Health Interview with Writer Russell Nohelty

[DIGEST] Home alone...

Substackers Against Nazis

How to build a sales funnel and flywheel using author ecosystems

Magic - Chapter 38

[DIGEST] Couch potato...

Clarify Your ‘Why’

Sell Out (With Me, Oh Yeah)

The universe is dumb and capitalism is nonsense

Connections - Episode 1

Connections - Episode 2

Connections - Episode 3

Connections - Episode 4

Connections - Episode 5

Connections - Episode 6

Connections - Episode 7

Connections - Episode 8

Connections - Episode 9

Connections - Episode 10

Connections - Episode 11

Magic - Chapter 37

The Seven Core Values Underlying Our Perspective on Direct Sales

[DIGEST] The "off" season...

How Beth Spencer used a sneaky kitty to grow to over $10,000 in gross annualized revenue

Creating a safe place for people to arrive with Kat River

PLG, SaaS, and how the nonsense terms from tech can help supercharge your author career

Ink and Intent: How Creative Planning Uplifts Authors and Poets

How to avoid getting lost in the flurry of new Substacks flooding the site

The two major subscription models

What's your author ecosystem? It might help you gain more subscribers

Wolf Interviews: Russell Nohelty

Finding the Path

50% of authors suffer from burnout—here's why

Creator Q&A - Russell Nohelty

Magic - Chapter 36

Income report 2022

Income report 2021

Income report 2020

Income report 2019

Income report 2018

[DIGEST] Happy Ke$hagivings...

Breaking Down Launch Week for Direct Sales Mastery for Authors

Magic - Chapter 35

[DIGEST] Catchup and catnaps...

One Damned Good Thing

Magic - Chapter 34

[DIGEST] 20books

Look dad! I'm a paid writer.

Magic - Chapter 33

[DIGEST] Gimme some candy

Kickstarter for every Author Ecosystem

Magic - Chapter 32

[DIGEST] Golden time in The Golden City

Fourth Wing Fantasy: Eleven Tropes in the first Three Pages

Growth, or something like it...

Magic - Chapter 31

[DIGEST] Tattoos that cure the blues...

Setting up your direct sales environment

Dragon Scourge - Chapter 1

Dragon Scourge - Chapter 2

Dragon Scourge - Chapter 3

Dragon Scourge - Chapter 4

Dragon Scourge - Chapter 5

Dragon Scourge - Chapter 6

Dragon Scourge - Chapter 7

Dragon Scourge - Chapter 8

Dragon Scourge - Chapter 9

Dragon Champion - Chapter 1

Dragon Champion - Chapter 2

Dragon Champion - Chapter 3

Dragon Champion - Chapter 4

Dragon Champion - Chapter 5

Dragon Champion - Chapter 6

Dragon Champion - Chapter 7

Dragon Champion - Chapter 8

Dragon Champion - Chapter 9

Dragon Champion - Chapter 10

Dragon Goddess - Chapter 1

Dragon Goddess - Chapter 2

Dragon Goddess - Chapter 3

Dragon Goddess - Chapter 4

Dragon Goddess - Chapter 5

Dragon Goddess - Chapter 6

Dragon Goddess - Chapter 7

Dragon Goddess - Chapter 8

Dragon Goddess - Chapter 9

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 1

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 2

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 3

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 4

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 5

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 6

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 7

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 8

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 9

Wicked Bodies - Chapter 10

Magic - Chapter 30

Wicked Minds - Chapter 1

Wicked Minds - Chapter 2

Wicked Minds - Chapter 3

Wicked Minds - Chapter 4

Wicked Minds - Chapter 5

Wicked Minds - Chapter 6

Wicked Minds - Chapter 7

Wicked Minds - Chapter 8

Wicked Minds - Chapter 9

Wicked Minds - Chapter 10

[DIGEST] At one with nature...

How to reframe capitalism to make sales and marketing work (better) for you

Magic - Chapter 29

[DIGEST] Fair Faire Fare...

Why you probably need a break...right now

Magic - Chapter 28

[DIGEST] Recovery...

What it really means to get that pretty orange checkmark

Magic - Chapter 27

[DIGEST] Ninc...

Publishing is Changing—Why? And how to we take advantage of it

Magic - Chapter 26

[DIGEST] Wizarding...

Email marketing for every Author Ecosystem

Magic - Chapter 25

Looking to begin, grow, and/or monetize your Substack? Start here.

[DIGEST] This was 40...

The 5 biggest mistakes writers make when turning their books into comics

Magic - Chapter 24

[DIGEST] Song 2...

Looking to begin, grow, and/or monetize your Substack? Start here.

Maximizing Substack for each ecosystems

Magic - Chapter 23

[DIGEST] Woof so hard...

How to get noticed on Substack

Magic - Chapter 22

[DIGEST] The long way home...

Will that new social media platform fundamentally improve your existence at all?

Magic - Chapter 21

[DIGEST] The Great Migration...

How to get 5,000-20,000 new readers for your Substack publication every month

Magic - Chapter 20

[DIGEST] Big cats and endless plains...

Unpacking Kickstarter's New AI Policy

Everything you might want to know about my African photo safari in Tanzania (with loads of pics)

Magic - Chapter 19

[DIGEST] Maasai guys (and women and nbs, too)

How to create a world-class Substack publication

Magic - Chapter 18

[DIGEST] Lyin' eyes lionize lion eyes

How Substack fits into the future of publishing

Magic - Chapter 17

[DIGEST] Hi Ena, hyena

How to build a substantial body of work that allows you to fight imposter syndrome without burning out

Thanks for being part of the Sarah Fay-thful!

Magic - Chapter 16

[DIGEST] It's elephant time

How I "evolved" beyond my natural author ecosystem

Magic - Chapter 15

[DIGEST] Let's monkey around a bit...

When to burn it all down and how to rise from the ashes

Magic - Chapter 14

[DIGEST] Vacation, not meant to be spent alone...

3 reasons why (despite 10+ years with direct sales) I don’t use Shopify or recommend it for most authors

Magic - Chapter 13

[DIGEST] Vacation, had to get away...

Where to invest your time and money when building an audience for your writing

Magic - Chapter 12

[DIGEST] Vacation, all I ever wanted...

How to supercharge your growth by putting together a world-class virtual conference... and have fun doing it

Magic - Chapter 11

Writer resources available on The Author Stack

Fiction available on The Author Stack

[THREAD] It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you...

How to use technology and productivity hacks to reclaim your time for things that matter

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Magic - Chapter 10

[THREAD] I don't got no shame left. That's my freedom...

How to use Substack sections to strengthen your backlist and give subscribers even more value

Magic - Chapter 9

[THREAD] How are you, really?

How to fall in love with book marketing

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Magic - Chapter 8

[THREAD] How are you, really?

Is it even possible to be a writer AND happy at the same time?

How to survive as a writer in a capitalist dystopia

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Issue 3

Issue 4

Issue 5

Issue 6

Issue 7

Issue 8

Issue 9

Issue 10

Issue 11

Issue 12

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Issue 14

Issue 15

Issue 16

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Magic - Chapter 7

Magic - Chapter 6

Magic - Chapter 5

Magic - Chapter 4

Magic - Chapter 3

Magic - Chapter 2

Magic - Chapter 1

Change - Chapter 8

Change - Chapter 7

Change - Chapter 6

Change - Chapter 5

Change - Chapter 4

Change - Chapter 3

Change - Chapter 2

Change - Chapter 1 [The beginning of the series]

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Season 1 - Episode 1

Season 1 - Episode 2

Season 1 - Episode 3

Season 1 - Episode 4

Season 1 - Episode 5

Season 1 - Episode 6

Season 1 - Episode 7

Season 1 - Episode 8

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

1 - WELCOME TO MY DIARY

2 - HANGOVER

3 - TERRY

4 - RUST BUCKET

5 - TOOTH

6 - MOM’S FLIGHT

7 - INVESTIGATING JEREMIAH

8 - PINS AND NEEDLES

9 - VISITING HOURS

10 - SCUMBAG

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

MAKING GREAT CONTENT

THE BASICS OF SELLING

BUILDING AN AUDIENCE FROM SCRATCH

MAKING MONEY AT LIVE EVENTS

LAUNCHING A SUCCESSFUL KICKSTARTER

MINDSET

WRITING

MARKETING

Advanced Growth Tactics for Authors

[FRIDAY THREAD] How are you, really?

[FRIDAY THREAD] How are you, really?

Spinning a great idea into book marketing gold

How to find more readers for your books and get stacked with subs on Substack

[OPEN THREAD] How are you, really?

How to improve your mental state by embracing neutral thinking

How to go paid on Substack without selling your soul

The future of publishing could be a beautiful utopia, but we have to fight for it to exist first

Are you seeing things clearly in your writing career?

What if the skills that made you a successful writer start to ruin your life?

What chronic illness can teach us about conserving our energy for what matters and taking imperfect action

"I am overwhelmed"

Facebook disappeared me...

Nobody owes you sales

Upleveling your writing career

A quick wish for you

How one hour of work can make you $100,000 a year

Reclaiming your time

$500/hr tasks

How to moderate panels

There are no badges of honor in publishing

Nobody can validate your career but you

Recovering a long series: a case study

This is my belief about how AI will effect the future of publishing

Most good publishing advice exists in the squishy middle between didactic absolutes

You should not be competing against other writers

The Dragon and the door; a parable about publishing success

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[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] How to build an amazing book with legendary editors Shelly Bond and Kris Simon

[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] How to build a legendary comics career with Jim Zub

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[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] How to deal with burnout, depression, and anxiety with Dr. Debra Holland

[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] How to make a mindblowing webcomic with Michael Son

[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] How to write a book that win's Amazon's coveted best horror novel award with Jennifer Gordon

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[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] How to build a world-class comic book with David Pepose

[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] How to build a monumentally successful transmedia writing career with Paul Jenkins

[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] The first embers of Writer MBA with Monica Leonelle

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[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] Why Real Artists Don't Starve with bestselling author Jeff Goins

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[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] How to incubate a bestselling book with Angela Lauria

[SPECIAL ARCHIVE EPISODE] How to build a successful subscription podcast with White Vault producers Travis Vengroff and Kailtlin Statz

A bad book launch is not a moral failure

Updating your email preferences so you stop getting so many emails from me

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