Silver Linings

My personal Substack

From the Author of Happier Made Simple™: Musings on Mental Health, Power of Human Connection, and Being Off the Mark but On the Path

I am an author advocate, publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, book industry insider, and champion to writers who show up to the page because they must.

Weekly Inspiration for Writers - A Weekly Podcast with cohosts Brooke Warner (She Writes) and Grant Faulkner (NaNoWriMo)

I'm like Midge, your fat friend from high school, and you will like me. I'm curious. I read and write about everything. History, pop culture, and the arts from an old-school journalist. Come along with me!

Hot food. Dry wit.

Behind the Scenes of a novelist's life, writing advice, author interviews, and WORDPLAY Book Club for Writers & Curious Readers, with NYT bestselling novelist and #1 Netflix film/literary collaborator Evelyn Skye.

Lunch with the Queen

We're Gen Xers Trying to Retire Abroad

Here to learn and share about writing, reading, travel, parenting, and otherwise making our way in this crazy world. Hint: we dance and eat bread. My cats run my calendar, so if I'm late, you'll know who to blame.

In this newsletter I share embarrassing stories of personal failure. Someday I hope to run out of them.

We are a community curious about Place Writing. Celebrating the art and craft of Place Writing by sharing ideas, posing questions, and finding answers if we can.

Your guide to great writing happening on Substack, plus the home of “The Active Voice,” a podcast by Hamish McKenzie.

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism.

Celebrating immigrant heroes and borderlands humanitarians worldwide who show us, every day, that there is a better way to respond to global migration. We can, we must, #WelcomeWithDignity because #CrueltyIsNotOk

News, Politics, Culture, Mental Health, Various Sundries

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Thoughts from a late-in-life lesbian.

The miniature version of #1000wordsofsummer, seventh edition: March 2-7, 2024.

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

The higher the hair, the closer to Jesus.

How we write is how we live. And how we live is how we write. A dose of creative writing for the soul.

This is the home of two newsletters. Paid subscribers get Cheryl's Dear Sugar Letter monthly, plus her free newsletter several times a year, which includes her "Tells Us" author series. Free subscribers get everything but the monthly Dear Sugar Letter.

The Rule of Three is a writing principle that suggests that a trio of events or characters is more humorous, satisfying, or effective than other numbers.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2024 it begins 6/1!)

Three verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays.