Literary Salon News
See what’s available in the various newsletters Literary Salon produces:
Book Store
We’re authors. We have books. We should sell them. What a concept. The book store offers books by paid members and clients of Bookmotion.
Book Salon: The Literary Salon Book Store
Bookmotion
I offer managed Book Funnel accounts where your eBook is given away as a reader magnet to get you more newsletter subscribers.
Keep up-to-date on the latest developments at Literary Salon:
April 14th, 2025:
Book Clubs and Paperback Giveaway
We’re going to read a book together every month! And for the first book, to celebrate, I’m giving away ten paperbacks!
June: Empire’s Daughter by Marian L Thorpe
July: Mud Valley by Terry A. Fries
August: RUOK? by Andy Futuro
You can grab your copy at:
The Literary Salon Bookstore
Visit the Book Salon and find eBooks and paperbacks at your favorite bookstores around the Internet. I should have added this to the news days ago, but there’s just so much happening. Once you have your book, you can join us for the Book Club in the:
Slack Forum
Literary Salon now has a Slack forum for paid subscribers, and that’s where the Book Clubs and paperback giveaways will be held.
We also have a channel for each of the Literary Salon projects, both ongoing and brand new. That includes Open-World Fiction, which includes:
World Anvil Bible for our Open-World project
The Franklin Fictionstack is our place to collect the lore of Franklin, as our writers build it.
April 11th, 2025:
One
In Notes, I suggested that by reviewing books (Substack authored books in particular) we can help create a community that “moves books”, and by using the shared title Reviewstack, people will always no where to look. This is an addendum to the Reviewstack article.
Two
This hasn’t been officially announced yet, but
will be the keeper of Franklin lore (maintaining the world-building bible) for Open-World Fiction.April 10th, 2025:
Open-World Fiction
Imagine a series of flash stories, and with the end of each story, you pick which character to follow from here. This post introduces our volunteer writers to the basic concept. This is round one. If it’s successful, more rounds will follow.
MmmFA: Mighty Fine Arts
Think NaNoWriMo, stretched over six months and producing three drafts. June-the end of November. Details:
Goal: 10k
A new section that you’ll only receive if you opt-in here. It’s for writers who are interested in brainstorming realistic growth for their newsletters. The first official post is in the next heading, but I’ve also added an older post about the mystery of readers on Substack.
Reviewstack
Introduced in the first post for Goal: 10k, Reviewstack is a cross-platform movement to review stories on Substack under the name Reviewstack. More info here:
The Champions Series
It started here:
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