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Managing Your Reading Experience
A Quick Guide
Feb 3, 2025
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The Last Cup
Nov 24, 2024
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Substack Needs to Romance Authors
Dec 6, 2023
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Working with an Illustrator
Aug 6, 2024
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Interview with Mills Baker
Aug 13, 2024
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Story Compass: Fiction and Found Favorites
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The Gap
Part of the Midnight Vault Twilight Zone Celebration
Nov 24, 2025
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A Bought Lesson is Best
Fiction for my Daughters
Dec 23, 2024
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It is Pitch Black
You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
Dec 11, 2024
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The Last Cup
Fiction, Submitted for Your Approval, as Part of the Substack Zone Event
Nov 24, 2024
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Christmas in the Twilight Zone
Night of the Meek
Dec 18, 2023
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Stack Cartographer: Mapping the Newsletter Frontier
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A Plan to Jumpstart Growth in Fiction
This article is part of the Stack Cartographer section.
Feb 10, 2025
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Managing Your Reading Experience
A Quick Guide
Feb 3, 2025
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Substack Needs to Romance Authors
Newly Updated with Additional Information about Ream
Dec 6, 2023
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Why You Should Be Excited about Video
Substack is Not Pivoting to Video
Nov 30, 2023
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Get in the Box!
A Critique and Webcomic about Notes
May 24, 2023
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Drawing Room: Sketches, Comics & Visual Stories
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Lessons Learned
An Illustrated Story
Mar 3, 2025
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Working with an Illustrator
Designing a Cover for S.E. Reid
Aug 6, 2024
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Time Lapse Sketch of Tony Todd
Macabre Monday
Jan 22, 2024
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How to Draw an Eye
Maybe a better title is how I draw an eye
May 2, 2023
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Spoken Ward: Conversations, Craft & Community
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WWDC Takes with John and Mills
A recording from John Ward and Mills Baker's live video
Jun 11, 2025
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John Ward
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Mills Baker
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My Take on the Altman and Ives Merger
A recording from John Ward's live video
May 24, 2025
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Getting Weird with Dre Beltrami
A recording from John Ward's live video
Mar 5, 2025
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John Ward
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Dre Beltrami
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Bookshelf Tour
A recording from John Ward's live video
Jan 16, 2025
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Behind the Algorithm
A recording from John Ward's live video
Jan 13, 2025
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John Ward
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Ben Cohen
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Simon K Jones
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