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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
25 Prompts for the Next 25 Posts
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