✍️ Bestselling Author & Top 25 Substacker 💌 [email protected] ⬇️ all my things!
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2010
- Tweets10.3K
- Following1.2K
- Followers2.9K
- Likes4.6K
Olivia Wickstrom started Petal + Hearth thinking Substack was a blogging platform. She didn't know it sent posts to inboxes. A month in, she saw writers turning trust into paid subscribers and clients, and started writing as herself. From my Substack Live with @oliviawickstrom.
a day in the life of an author whose novel comes out this month: final book files at my old writers' room coffee shop in burbank, lunch in anaheim, a class of chapman students, then tacos.
my romantic thriller LET ME BE YOUR GHOST is out november 18.
two weeks from today, my romantic thriller LET ME BE YOUR GHOST comes out. preorder it in hardcover, paperback, or kindle, upload your order confirmation on my site, and my never-released book HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR is yours free within minutes. the free book comes with preorders only. last day to preorder: november 17 (midnight pacific). link in the replies ⬇️
one proposal launched katie ludlow rich's ghostwriting business. she needed funding to write a life story, and a friend asked: what if you wrote them a proposal? three options, a few pricing models (one of them mine), and a yes. from my substack live with @katieludlowrich ⬇️
the full conversation with katie ludlow rich: youtu.be/u7A00Xf_xQc
i made my novel a grocery store sale tag. buy one, get one free, like a family-size bag of tortilla chips.
preorder my romantic thriller LET ME BE YOUR GHOST (out november 18) in hardcover, paperback, or kindle, upload your order confirmation on my site, and my never-published book HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR is yours free. the free book comes with preorders only. last day to preorder: november 17 (midnight pacific). link in the replies ⬇️
ALT A yellow grocery shelf tag under two book covers: buy 1, get 1 free. Preorder Let Me Be Your Ghost, get How to Write a Memoir free. Ends Nov 17, midnight PT.
afternoon tea & some emails in Anaheim before heading to speak at a Chapman class later with @kylefcords ✨🫖
16 days until my romantic thriller LET ME BE YOUR GHOST comes out on november 18. preorder it now in hardcover, paperback, or kindle, upload your order confirmation on my site, and my never-released book HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR is yours free. the free book comes with preorders only. last day to preorder: november 17 (midnight pacific). link in the replies ⬇️
to everyone writing a novel this november: 50,000 words in 30 days is about 1,700 a day. you don't need the whole plot. you need the next scene.
a horror story for writers, in two sentences: "i'll remember that idea in the morning." the morning came.
going to AWP in chicago? i'll be there as part of my LET ME BE YOUR GHOST book tour. find me at table T2519 in the bookfair, march 18 to 20, with signed copies of my romantic thriller and some of my other books. make writing your job readers, come say hi in person. @awpwriter #AWP27
ALT Amy Suto smiling with a stack of books in a polaroid under the 2027 AWP Conference & Bookfair logo. March 18 to 20, Chicago.
los angeles, i'm signing books at good girl books! 📚
📅 saturday, december 5, noon to 3pm
📍 12444 venice blvd, mar vista
drop in any time, no RSVP needed. pick up a copy of my romantic thriller LET ME BE YOUR GHOST (out november 18) and i'll sign it, plus secret gifts for those who show up in person 🎁
details in the replies ⬇️
ALT Good Girl Books event graphic: Book Signing with Amy Suto, Saturday, December 5, 12 to 3pm, with Amy's headshot and the cover of Let Me Be Your Ghost
joanna penn asked how i handle being expected to be on every platform, all the time. what i told her: we are writers, and we should be writing first. the platforms and the tools only earn their place if they buy you time to write. everything else is noise.
my romantic thriller LET ME BE YOUR GHOST comes out november 18, and that line is how it got written.
ALT Cream quote card: We are writers, and we should be writing first. Everything else is noise. Amy Suto, as heard on The Creative Penn Podcast with Joanna Penn.
the whole episode of the creative penn podcast: thecreativepenn.com/2026/10/…