Fiction Recommendations on Substack
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The Champion Series
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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Wow! I made the list!
Good thing I have a new story out!:
https://open.substack.com/pub/sumflux/p/a-face-in-the-glass-part-i-the-sacrifice?r=2bg59e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thank you :)
I would love to see @NJ and @Magnetic on here