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Substack for Authors
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Welcome to Substack for Authors
Welcome!
A Few Great Substack Newsletters
Class Substacks
Housekeeping
Week 1
About This Week
Why I Chose Substack (video) (14:29)
A Few Great Substack Names
Naming Your Substack, part 1 (Video) (8:12)
Naming Your Substack, part 2 (Video) (7:56)
How to Make Your Substack Private While You're Working on It
When (and if) to Set up Paid Subscriptions
Setting Up Your Substack, Part 1 (Video) (23:49)
Setting up Your Substack, Part 2 (Video) (19:22)
Week 1 Discussion
Live Q&A Replay (Sept. 20) (13:53)
Week 2
How to Access Our Private Course Substack
Best Practices for Using Substack as Your Author Newsletter
Linking to Your Books
Writing Your About Page (16:25)
The Writer/Creator Photo
Developing the Ideal Posting Schedule
Writing: Using the Substack Dashboard (video) (10:58)
Writing Your First Post
Creating Images for Your Posts (Resources and Sizes)
Creating Substack Images with Canva (Video Tutorial) (4:53)
Share your Substack
Week 3
How to Serialize Fiction or Memoir on Substack
Three Ways to Add Audio to Your Substack
How to Add Audio to Your Substack (Video Tutorial) (15:01)
Repurposing Existing Content Your Readers Will Love
Writing This Week: The Why
The Secret Sauce: Substack Notes (9:39)
Writing This Week: A Few Revealing Questions
How to Migrate Your Existing Email List to Substack..and Your First 100 Subscribers (10:45)
More Secret Sauce: Office Hours
Engaging with Other Writers
Week 3 Discussion
Week 4
Live Q&A Replay
Writing the Paid Subscription Pitch (18:37)
How to Incentivize Audio and Make Real Connections with Readers
The Power of Recommendations (Video) (6:36)
Understanding Audience Insights to Grow Your Subscriber Base (13:56)
Review: 3 Pillars of a Successful Substack
Using Substack as a Notebook (6:09)
But Who's Listening? (The Writing Is the Thing)
Inspiration: The Anytime/Anywhere/Any Subject Writing Prompt
Bonus Section: A Bit of Inspiration
Writing Through Distraction (Video) (2:36)
Recommended Reading
Long Term Strategies for Growth and Engagement
25 Prompts for the Next 25 Posts
How to block AI from crawling your Substack
More Secret Sauce: Office Hours
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