First: thank you. When I put the cover options in front of you, I expected a handful of polite votes. What I got instead were capital-O Opinions — real ones, specific ones, the kind you give a friend who is about to get a very permanent tattoo.
So I took them seriously, and then I made the call. Here she is:
Lola in profile. The Golden Gate wrapped in fog inside her silhouette. Magenta light chewing the scenery. I can’t wait to hold the final copy in my hands — thank you for helping me pick!
👻 Preorders are officially open
Let Me Be Your Ghost (the romantic thriller you’ve been reading here chapter by chapter every Friday) releases this November, and the book is available for pre-orders on Amazon and other retailers.
(You can purchase it on Kindle or Paperback. Hardcover coming soon!)
Here’s the truth about preorders: they decide how hard the bookstore algorithms work for a book on launch day, which makes them the single biggest gift a reader can give an author.
But I didn’t want to just ask you to help me get this book out there. I wanted to also give you some real gifts in exchange for your support!
🎁 The secret book I’ve been sitting on for years
In between ghostwriting memoirs for clients whose names I will take to my grave, I once wrote a book called How to Write a Memoir: a ghostwriter’s secrets for turning your life into a bestseller. Everything I actually do on real memoir projects, start to finish. Then I never published it. It has been my private playbook ever since.
Until now.
Preorder ONE copy of Let Me Be Your Ghost (any format, any retailer) and I’ll send How to Write a Memoir to you. The whole book, in PDF and EPUB. In the novel, Lola ghostwrites memoirs for dangerous men, and this is her tradecraft — except real, and mine.
Once you pre-order your copy, just go fill out the form on this page with your receipt!
Two books, one preorder. I am ~ unreasonably ~ excited about this part.
📚 For the ringleaders
Preordering for a book club, a team, or a whole org? The gifts scale with you.
Pre-ordering 10+ print copies runs about $200 in paperbacks and in exchange I’ll comp you a $550 annual founding membership to this very newsletter. This includes access to our monthly Substack Lab workshops, the 6 Week Substack Sprint, and more. The math is not subtle on purpose.
And 50+ print copies gets you a private session with me (consulting time I bill at $1,000 an hour) or a talk for your team or organization — over $1,500 in gifts before you count the books themselves. You also get access to the gifts in the previous tiers (including the $550/year Founding Membership here at Sutoscience!)
🧾 Claiming takes one minute
Preorder anywhere. Screenshot your receipt. Upload it on the claim page, and the gifts go out automatically by email within minutes. (Yes, I built a little receipt-reading machine for this. Yes, I’m very proud of it.)
Serializing this novel with you, Friday by Friday, has been one of the great joys of my writing life. The book arrives in November. The gifts start today.
A book launch is a group project wearing one author’s name. Thank you for being mine.
-Amy