Archive - 💡 Sutoscience by Amy Suto

💡 10 paperbacks, 1 Founding membership

Preorder 10 print copies of my novel (about $220) and I'll comp you a $550 Founding year on Sutoscience. 16 days left.

Nov 2 • Amy Suto

💡 sunday tea: excited, nervous, and 17 days from launch

plus, my book tour stops in Los Angeles and Chicago, your last chance to get my unreleased memoir book, and my round-up of the week's book news.

Nov 1 • Amy Suto

October 2026

🌁 chapter twenty-two: the black site [let me be your ghost]

“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.” -Richard Lovelace

Oct 30 • Amy Suto

💡 How serializing my novel on Substack out-earned the book

A self-published book nets about $7. A serial reader pays $8 a month, then preorders the finished book anyway. I walked Joanna Penn through the math.

Oct 26 • Amy Suto

💡 sunday tea: I'm going on a book tour, and I need your favorite bookstore

plus, the 8 Substack mistakes I see in every audit, 3 new Lives to watch, the last few weeks of my buy-one-get-one-free preorder, and my round-up of…

Oct 25 • Amy Suto

💡 How I decide what goes behind my Substack paywall

I talked to Simon Owens about the Paris email that became my job board, why my essays stay free, and the math of serializing a novel.

Oct 25 • Amy Suto

💡 Self-Published Authors Can Go on Book Tour. Here's How I'm Planning Mine.

Where my budget goes this time, the 3-line pitch I send bookstores, and the one tour date I can already share.

Oct 24 • Amy Suto

15:21

💡 The 8 Substack Mistakes You're Probably Making (I Made Them Too)

Your Substack isn't growing, and it's not the algorithm. What I see over and over in my Substack audits, the fix for each one, and the mistake I'd fix…

Oct 23 • Amy Suto

🌁 chapter twenty-one: because i could not stop [let me be your ghost]

“Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me —” -Emily Dickinson

Oct 23 • Amy Suto

💡 Get your work seen in 1 hour a week

50% off my live workshop and 30-day course, for Founding Members only

Oct 20 • Amy Suto

💡 The most boring Substack advice you'll ever hear

It's the advice I give most often, and the one I didn't want to hear when I started 3 years ago. Brendan O'Meara and I got into it on The Creative…

Oct 19 • Amy Suto

💡 sunday tea: the hardest part of being a writer is distribution

plus, my month in Los Angeles, your last chance to get my unreleased book for free, and my round-up of what to read and watch.

Oct 18 • Amy Suto

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