Bringing your Twitter followers to Substack
Twitter is changing, and it's tough to predict what might be next. If you've been lucky enough to build a follower base on Twitter, and you've ever thought about forging a direct link with them that you…
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Miscellany | Mule Deer (1)
(Miscellany (noun): a collection of things of various kinds || A home for: my thoughts; my essays; my memoirs; my writing) This is the area of my newsletter that isn’t about my writing. It is my writing…
Final hours for Cyber Monday Deals. ⏳
Grab the deal now! Warmly, Diana Orgain P.S. Don’t forget you can pre-order Murder Comes Crawling here!
Guest Column: What Authors, Readers, and Everyone Outside Institutional Publishing Should Understand About the HarperCollins Strike
You might have heard that there is an ongoing workers’ strike happening at HarperCollins. Kent and I support it; in honor of Giving Tuesday, we’re mailing a check to the strike fund today. All the cool…
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Lit Mag Reading Club Chat: Harvard Review #59
Another editor interview is in the books! Today I chatted with Christina Thompson, Editor of Harvard Review. This was part of our Lit Mag Reading Club discussion and we specifically focused on Issue 59…
Giving Tuesday
It’s GivingTuesday, the day dedicated to supporting the causes closest to your heart. Please join me in making a donation to Be the Star You Are!® 501 c3 charity empowering women, families, and youth through…
Last chance to get these B00ks, Postmate
Mahalo, I’m writing this edition of The Writer Gal Letter listening to I See You by MISIO and it’s definitely number one on my muse soundtrack for the new project I’m working on. I am still mulling on…
Review: Katie Gaddini on “Nonverts”
For several generations, many people who identify as Christian have perceived that identity as defining a set of social and political beliefs which intertwined with the religious in ways that set Christians…
The Kindling | 11.29.22
I read a strange article about beauty pageants the other day, and then wondered about how people get involved in them, how they maintain their popularity, and my silly mind ran away with itself. That’s…
There are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do...
25th November 1950: English novelist and scholar Clive Staples Lewis (Photo by John Chillingworth/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Considering he wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, it’s no real surprise…
Jim Harrison on Writing and Drinking
Photo: Getty Images “The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth.” —Jim Harrison It was already apparent…
The Best Way to Burn Out on Christmas 🎄
source Special things are special because they’re rare. Birthdays are only once a year, rites of passage like graduations are monumental because we can count ours on one hand, and vacations are what they…
Two New Short Vids from Florence to Rome!
From Florence to Rome here’s a little bit about what’s going on in the writer’s life . check out THE BODY, the brand new Jack “Keeper” Marconi PI serialized and uncut novel on Kindle Vella. Like and Follow…
The books I enjoyed most this year
Writing elsewhere I wrote for CapX about Keir Starmer’s House of Lords plans and for The Critic about the median voter theorem and how Michael Gove lost his Leninism. How to Read a Novel Next week we are…
Our Continued Rise Isn't a Mystery
Boozhoo, indinawemaaganidog! Aaniin! That is to say hello, all of my relatives! Welcome to another edition of An Irritable Métis. We are fully embroiled now in the season of gift giving and stuff buying…
🕯️ The Scary Christmas Scented Candle has returned.
Disclaimer: We can neither confirm nor deny whether Cameron Diaz burned a Scary Christmas Scented Candle in the 2006 hit film, The Holiday. Candle not scaled to size. I wouldn’t be surprised if my love…
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