Fiction Recommendations on Substack

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The Champion Series

Dunmorian Worlds

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One Writer's Legacy

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The Cool Kid of the Pacific Northwest

Nick Winney, Author, not Horse Thief

His Stories Will Hurt You

More Than Spectacle

The starter pack of fiction recommendations:

Clancy Steadwell

is one of our brightest and publishes contemporary/lit fiction only on Substack. You can check out my interview with him, too.

Andy Futuro

is a wonderful horror writer with a flair for form.

Emil Ottoman

is a literary writer and editor with a punk sensibility and offers free, regular analysis of writers’ work in an intimidatingly-titled series he calls autopsies.

I represent several Substack authors on Book Funnel, and you can get a free book while signing up for their fiction newsletters. Just check out my site, Bookmotion.pro. This includes,

Larry Hogue

,

Marian L Thorpe

,

Rob Mortell

,

M.P. Fitzgerald - Graphomania

,

Nick Richards

,

Xavier Macfarlane

,

Jenna B. Neece

,

Mark Watson Books

Terry A. Fries

and others. Grab a book for free and find fiction on Substack at Bookmotion.pro.

A successful literary historical author (and a friend) has come to Substack to offer literary science fiction. Check out

Libbie Grant

I was running out of room when I was still trying to fit all this on one post, but I still needed to add

Tess McCarthy

,

Jamie Just Writes

,

Kathy Napoli

,

Jenean McBrearty

,

Nick Winney

,

Jeremy Harshman

,

Steve Kelsey

,

Bill Hiatt

,

S M Garratt

,

by CB Mason

,

David Perlmutter

,

Ben Woestenburg

,

Tell Me a Mystery

,

Marilyn Graham Werden

, and

Sandy Shaller

Gemorabilia

is new, but her writing caught my attention.

You can find more writers in the Literary Salon chat. We share our posts and support one another. It’s a good way to get some traction on Notes.

Now that I’ve moved the recommendations list to its own post, I can add a few more:

Hanna Delaney

,

S.E. Reid

,

Tom Cox

,

Jimmy Doom

,

Will Boucher

,

Grace Anderson-Author

,

Bill Adler

,

Erica Drayton

,

Jo Paoletti

(not fiction, but a personal history worth checking out),

Patricia J.L. 👻🧶🖊️

,

Rick Barooah

,

Mercedes de Santiago

,

Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️

,

The Steam Stack

,

LC Frias

Lyndsey Resnick

, and

Wyatt Werne

I want to organize this page better, but I have a confession. I hate lists and am avoiding this work. At some point, I’ll get help. In the meantime, I discovering new authors and old friends I’d overlooked:

NJ

Magnetic

Zani D

S.L. Stallings

Zivah Avraham

Jamie Dibs

Amanda Coreishy

S M Garratt

Brock Eldon

Leeron Heywood

Mark Hannam

S.L. Stallings

And I’m still missing so many people.

There are also the zines.

https://jontoews.substack.com

If your name is on here, I’m not trying to spam you but introduce new subscribers to fiction here on Substack. All the links were threatening to kick me out of people’s mail boxes, so I created a second page for this purpose. If you’re name is not on here, I’m an idiot, and I apologize.

— Thaddeus Thomas

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