2 decades of editorial practice, rebuilt for Substack publishers
All my best workbooks + a monthly live session to talk through your publishing reality.
Join us on Google Meet for live working sessions around the skill of the month.
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Build professional publishing infrastructure without flattening the voice at the center of it. This guide brings together the Creative Sovereignty System, Audience Intelligence Framework, Content Multiplication System and Strategic Data Literacy—helping you choose themes and formats, shape a sustainable publishing rhythm, coordinate support and use data without letting metrics take over. Start here when your publication is working, but the systems around it need to catch up.
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A practical quarterly reset for your Substack publication. Work through your creative systems, monthly theme, formats, 30-day flow, evergreen library, inbox presence, content cadence and five key publication metrics. The goal is not to optimize every corner of your creative life, but to see what is working, what feels heavy and what small adjustment will make publishing more sustainable — for you and for your readers.
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Audience intelligence is not audience appeasement. This guided workbook helps you understand the people who trust your work across eight dimensions—from their values and desired experience to their daily rhythms, needs, gathering places and barriers. Use what you uncover to choose themes, calibrate depth and frequency, interpret your data with context and make bolder editorial decisions without compromising your creative direction.
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No prep, no report — just the two of us looking at what your subscribers are actually doing.
We connect on video. You share your screen, I read your Substack dashboard in real time and explore what your data might be trying to show you about your writing, subscribers and your publication as a whole.
You leave with the one thing to change or watch this month.
$99/session. 30 minutes. 5 openings each month just for paid subscribers.
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SubSight turns your raw Substack data into plain-language insight about your writing and subscribers.
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A simple, copyable spreadsheet built on the method I use inside The Publishing Spectrum: color every piece by its editorial weight — green for light and connective, yellow for substantive, red for the anchors — and then look at the calendar from your reader's side. In my Substack Reader Survey of 400+ readers, 37% named unsubscribe reasons that are within a publisher's control: relentless rhythm, unclear expectations, too much asked too often.
This calendar is how you see those patterns before your readers feel them.
Make your copy, place what you're already planning, color it and step back. The full method, planning prompts and walkthrough live in the companion post.
Pairs well with the Dashboard Reading — plan the shape here, then read your audience's response together.
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Live threads twice a week with the contributor circle, for the in-between questions.
This is a space for the in-between questions of publishing that don't fit anywhere else. On Mondays, Amanda hosts an open thread for the exact question your data raised: ask anything about what a pattern means, what to do about it, what you're seeing. The rest of the week, our creative contributors open the real middle of their own process — the experiments, the uncertainty, the momentum. You never have to sort it out alone.
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