Famous writers like Chuck Palahniuk have joined Substack in the past year and quickly grew their subscribers. Most newsletter industry talk focuses on the great non-fiction writing being done but there's also a space for fiction and authors like these. Substack can be a way to engage with your community and publish less formally. Do you think this trend is here to stay?

And this week's featured newsletters cover batteries, leadership, product management, economics, and more!

Articles & Tools

Why Novelists Are Embracing Substack — www.esquire.com

Famous novelists like George Saunders, Salman Rushdie, and Chuck Palahniuk are migrating to Substack, serializing fiction, teaching writing, and embracing comments.

CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean — css-tricks.com

The popular CSS focused newsletter has been acquired by web hosting platform, Digital Ocean.

Convert 20-50% more subscribers with just one line of code? — www.youtube.com

Quick tips, tactics and tricks to boost your newsletter audience and grow your email-list.

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Celebrating women of colour with a weekly news round up & empowering interviews! — www.glowreel.co

Stories about women of colour making waves and headlines for all the right reasons. Sometimes angels or hellraisers. Always strong women. These are women who shook up the world, women making waves today, and women finding their groove.

Featured Newsletters

Snipette — inboxreads.co

Weekly science and culture articles, written by authors from around the world.

Better Batteries — inboxreads.co

This weekly newsletter explores energy storage systems like Li-ion batteries and their implications for the future of the energy industry.

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saturday mornings — thomasdixon.substack.com

Helping You Learn & Explore New Ideas.

Micro Digest — inboxreads.co

That's why we'll do the heavy lifting and write a short summary on the most interesting ONE THING. The topic usually revolves around side hustle ideas, investing, culture, history and technology.

Discomfort Club — inboxreads.co

A weekly newsletter for men who pursue personal excellence through discomfort.

Just Product Management Things — inboxreads.co

Every week, we share a short summary of the top reads on Product Management that we recently came across. We also add other interesting reads at the periphery of product, technology, business, growth, product design, etc.

Interpretations with Levi — inboxreads.co

Writing and commentary related to politics, culture, and general issues of the day.

Institutional Economics — inboxreads.co

Economics, finance and public policy from a classical liberal perspective.

Executive Leadership Insider — inboxreads.co

Weekly career leadership trusted by 3500+ global executives. Grow your career, get ahead, start a business, and make more money now.

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