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Recommended by Ben Woestenburg

Raewin’s Substack

By Raewin Hayes

Raewin's Substack is an honest, open, friendly and empathic Substack

Chronicles of The Tale-Keeper

By E.F. Ortega

A serialized fantasy saga...

Characters on Call

By Keith Patterson

Brainstorm story ideas or anything else with your own fictional characters—anywhere, anytime on a mobile app or Web browser. Subscribe for free and spend more time in flow state when you hang out with your imaginary friends.

Talk to your characters and interact with them by asking them questions as to how they think they would react to whatever situations you put them in...

- Ben Woestenburg

Writing Wednesdays

By Matt Lillywhite

Writing Wednesdays is a leading newsletter that helps Substack writers find their voice, grow their audience, and build a profitable writing career.

Top In Fiction

By Top in Fiction Curators

Where Fiction Lives!

Press

By Preston Pairo

Book updates. Short stories. Humor. From Preston Pairo, author of Thrillers, Contemporary Romance, and Beach Mysteries.

Grim Acres

By James Kenwood

A space where I share ideas, concepts and fragments of stories that I am working on. Reader discretion is advised: it may or may not make much sense initially...! Expect mostly fiction, with a sprinkling of despair, suspense, and Lovecraftian influences.

Dollar Commerce

By Andrew Watson

An open floor to all things e-commerce 🚀

Susan’s Substack

By Susan Shwartz

My personal Substack

Laura R. Hepworth - Bookwyrms

Young Adult Fantasy indieauthor sharing - serialized chapter drafts of upcoming novels, writing updates and news, bonus stories, and word nerdage. Maybe even a little bit of art, jewellery, and worldbuilding fun.

Catherine Rayner Studio - behind the scenes...

Welcome to my studio...this is my 'blog' for those of you who would like to know more about my life as a children's illustrator & author, learn new things and peek inside corners of my studio nobody (apart from me!) has ever visited before...

Past the Dragon

By Clifford Stumme

We're changing lives by learning about sci-fi/fantasy literature. Come for the essays and original stories. Stay for the memes.

Society of History Writers

By Holly A Brown

The only Substack community dedicated to sharing the history writing of its members to a global readership.

SmallStack

By Robin Taylor

A collection of the finest newsletters with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, with special love given to the under 500 subscriber stacks out there.

Three Lives of Jury (Mud Valley)

By Three Lives of Jury: A story of jealousy and murder

Love, murder and a town called Jury. A 40-year saga of life and the afterlife. A.K.A "Mud Valley" in digital formats

The Literary Salon: for the Radically Independent Author

By Thaddeus Thomas

Thaddeus has "developed a marketing plan that actually hunts for readers." -- Xavier MacFarlane, author of The Not-Yet-Novelist

There are nuggets in here, to help you find your way in an ever confusing world. Check in, read what he has to say, and try to implement it in your own way.

- Ben Woestenburg

Fair Share by Authors Equity

A behind-the-scenes look at the business of books.

The Freelance Writing Network

Calls to pitch from editors, freelance and remote writing jobs plus a ton of other writing related opportunities, directly to your inbox. Every week.

Bethany’s Substack for Writers and Readers

By Bethany A. Veiman

A FREE newsletter with TONS of tips and resources for the writing and reading community.

The Magic Lantern

By Marco.D.Blanco

The home of magic. The stories behind the books. From the Non-Award winner Marco D Blanco

The Fry Corner

By Stephen Fry

A sack of stubs, a stub sack, a stack of subs, a substack

It's Stephen Freakin' Fry! If you like erudite writing with a comical bent, this is what you're looking for.

- Ben Woestenburg

Dating Dinosaurs - A Memoir

By Wendy Martin

I invite you to join me as I chronicle my 200+ dates as a single mom during the prehistoric days of online dating. Laugh with me, laugh at me, cringe when necessary. Hold on, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!

Joyce’s Place

Inspiration drawn from my Maus Midnight Musings

Stories Have Power

By Rob Mortell

Stories Have Power is a fantasy fiction newsletter from author Rob Mortell.

Tranith Argan Fantasy Series

By Nick Richards

The Tranith Argan 6-book fantasy series is: Character driven, family friendly, optimistic, fun to read. FREE.

Victoria Jensen

A collection of self-written books, literature's greatest quotes, and occasional art

Writing Wrongs

By Jim J Wilsky

Fiction that has friction. I will post author interviews, classic book recommendations and my own crime short stories. I am also the co-author of a four-book series that is available in print, audio and ebook formats at Amazon and other similar outlets.

Follow Your Gut

By Elin Petronella

Poignant reflective writing about the artist life and business from the POV of a soon decade long independent visual artist career

Naptime Novelist

By Bridget Riley

stories of light and darkness, suffering and hope. love letters to the weirdness and messiness of life, written almost exclusively while my tiny, adorable hooligans are napping.

Words of Wrath

By Wrath James White

This is the personal newsletter of author Wrath James White. Get a look inside the twisted mind of one of the most extreme horror authors in the game.

Marc Randolph's Substack

As the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, I'll write a fair amount about the place, but I'll also share my thoughts on entrepreneurship, work-life balance, kids and whatever stupid things happen to pop into my head.

The Môrdreigiau Chronicles

By Leanne Shawler of the Môrdreigiau Chronicles

Join me in finding the extraordinary in the dusty & discarded. At the core is a Regency-era Arthurian quest to avoid ecological collapse, with sea dragons.

Who Will Save Her?

By Val Stuart

An illustrated serial fiction mystery in the not-too-distant future ...

English Republic of Letters

By Jeffrey Streeter

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

Through Lulu's Lens ☕️

By Lulu deCarron

Capturing a community one story at a time.

History vs. Hollywood

By Jack Cooper

Welcome to the History vs. Hollywood podcast—where every week we take a movie and tell you the real history behind it!

Work In Progress

By The Chronicler

Welcome! I write dark fiction, my favourite writers include Lovecraft, Stoker, and Tolkien. I invite you to explore my imagination and traverse the path of (possible) publishing. Currently building an anthology to my debut novel, "Shades of Night". Enjoy!

Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson

I have written over twenty books, including seventeen novels, and won the Booker Prize for fiction. Words are my faith, novels my passion, great novelists my paragons of truth. You might think I should get out more. You are right.

Peter's Scribbles

By Peter Smetanick

Blending fiction with reality - Mental illness under the microscope - A serialized memoir, short stories, poetry, and personal essays.

Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

"Just to spite the world, don’t cry! Just to spite the world, only laugh, only laugh!" - Sholom Aleichem. Amen, Brother.

Talebones ✨

By S.E. Reid

Home of the Ferris Island Tales! Short and serialized fiction from S.E. Reid: speculative stories with a spiritual, supernatural, or uncanny twist.

Auraist: picking the best-written books of the month

By Sean

32K+ readers. Followers, please note that only free or paid subscribers receive our picks of the best-written books from US & UK prize shortlists & major reviews, & masterclasses by their (sometimes world-renowned) authors on prose style.

My Clavicle Romance

By Desiree McCullough

A former pastor's wife writes about embracing sensuality while unraveling from evangelicalism.

Just because I like diversity in the pages I follow, I think maybe you might as well.

- Ben Woestenburg

A Literary Eye

By A.C. Cargill

A.C. Cargill is doing her best to connect readers to writers. She also presents her views on literature, excerpts from her books, peeks into her Freelan novel series, and occasional flash fiction. Thanks for reading.

Dans Deliberations

By Daniel O’Donnell

Movies, Music, Books and the endless imagination

If you like short, quick reads because you don't have the time, you've come to the right place.

- Ben Woestenburg

David’s Substack

By David Munroe

Stories for everyone.

Lunar Awards

By Brian Reindel

Recognizing and sharing the best fantasy and science fiction on Substack. Periodically posting essays, interviews and reviews.

Tales from the Defrag

By Alexander Ipfelkofer

Fiction at the intersection between man and machine, a speculative journey through time interspersed with adventure, mystery, philosophy and the occasional alien. Stay a while and listen.

BRENT BUTT on Substack

By Brent Butt on Substack

The award-winning comedian, bestselling author, and International Emmy nominee regularly drains his brain into this newsletter. Cartoons...videos...stories...project news... It's a good time!

Josh Tatter Has Thoughts

I've got a lot of thoughts and this is the place to read about them.