A guide to caring for our creative energy and and its healing power through time. Featuring stories and tools from my creative community in Asheville, North Carolina, to yours. <3Faye

Although not providing legal advice, an insider's view of the legal system.

A weekly dispatch on how faith shapes us all, even if we don't believe.

sustaining creative work in a busy life, midlife reinvention, and figuring out how to be happier at home

If culture is a reflection of society's soul, then this substack is an exorcism.

a little laugh is a weekly dose of humor in a sea (inbox) of darkness

practices in reading, writing, & unhinged optimism

Health care is a mess. Let's figure it out together.

Insider industry takes on the fiction of business and the business of fiction, written from the feminist gaze.

A newsletter about experimentation, connection, and how to find more creativity in daily life.

a newsletter of practical wisdom and personal reflections on on ethics, creativity, and how to change the world

Tricking yourself into creating art, one Post-It note doodle at a time

Musings on advertising, capitalism, humanity and the robots who know everything about you (from someone who used to live inside the machine).

Writer. Reader. Author of the debut novel, CHARLOTTE CANE, forthcoming from Harper, 2027.

I take the conceptual and make it practical and personal, delving into what it means to be human in the world today.

A weekly behind-the-scenes look at publishing, entrepreneurship, and trying to have a life. Told with humor, oversharing, and occasional existential dread, it’s fun chaos, with disclaimers included.

Thoughts on desire, power, rage, & women ruling the world.

🍩 Twice-weekly personal essays about the stickier sides of self-employment, from a breadwinning business owner living in New York City. 🗽 Posts go live Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11:11 a.m. ✨

Existential fashion publicist peels back the curtain.

A newsletter for people who contain multitudes.

Fueled by curiosity, anxiety, and hope that you’ll like me even though no worries if not! Here you’ll find (very) short and (hopefully) funny essays twice a month-ish with observations of adulthood and surviving late-stage capitalism with a MFA in clown.

My personal Substack

Julie & Julia-ing my way through grandma's recipe box

More love letter than newsletter. Art, attention, poetry, small fictions, Zen. Come read the world with me.

Novel plotting/revision from a New York Times bestseller, against the backdrop of my colorful life, home & garden

Practical craft lessons for writers

A newsletter about life on Lake Superior, travel, and the beauty of taking a break.

mental health, science, life hacks, updates about and insights from my new book about personality change

Melanie Jennings lives in Oregon where she is constantly working on a novel. Expect complaints, celebrations, cowboy boots, and other words that begin with C -- get your mind out of the gutter. Or don't.

Where craft meets life. Helping writers transform everyday moments into powerful micro prose and personal narratives.

Writing from the messy middle

A twice weekly newsletter chock-full of guidance and support from publishing industry insiders. Expect author interviews, guest blogs, giveaways, and more!

Kids have lost independence; parents have lost their intuition. Let's talk about it.

Author | Broadway Enthusiast | French Toast Connoisseur

Letters about bread, flour and people.

Dr. Rob Davidson and Miles Baker explore the power, profit & politics shaping American health care. New podcast drops weekly. Project of the Committee to Protect Health Care.

Personal essays on life and writing, plus updates on my journey to publication, the odd notes app poem, and a running list of my current (music, book, TV, podcast, food) obsessions.

A very occasional newsletter with stories, events, and other things that I hope you might like.

magic is real. books are doorways. hope is a seed that can grow.

honest advice about making a career as an author today

Named a “badass” and “force of nature," LESLIE HSU OH is an adventure writer + photographer + mother of four. In this newsletter, she explores how the natural world shapes identity, resilience, and reciprocity. FIREWEED: A MEMOIR forthcoming.

Pens and Poison is the literary project of author Liza Libes. Enter a world of literary analysis, philosophical musings, and other poetic ponderings.

An intersection between writing and food.

Neurodivergent visual storyteller for the delightfully strange, the ferociously feral, and the little bit sleepy.

Short "how to" posts that tell funny stories about life

Craft, process, and strategy -- with tips for getting your yes! Subscribe and get my Perfect Pitch template as a free download in your Welcome email.

Publishing, demystified (and commission-free)

Pursuing publishing in my 40s, surviving the novel query trenches, and battling procrastination daily. Plus things I read, watch, cook, and love.

Come for the book recs, essays, nosy questions, awkward confessions. Stay for the conversation.

slightly chaotic essays on writing, craft, art, books, movies, and other nonsense.