A community for fiction writers on Substack.

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

I help fellow Substackers make the most of their time by unstacking all the back-end chores that come along with writing on this platform.

Essays and podcast episodes about how we see the world, ourselves, and each other.

Trusted by 70K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

On writing and life. Long-form musings on the nature of creativity and the essence of everything. Some poems, too.

Jon Brooks' modern weekly guide to the best ideas in ancient Stoicism.

Through currents and trends, a novelist swims. With psychedelics and sci-fi-loving fiction author Charlotte Dune.