May 2025

Substack to creators: you’re on your own

While we were all complaining about “AI” and cover art, Substack seems to have farmed out much of its customer support infrastructure to various…

May 25 • 

Sam Liebl

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Nico Harlakenden

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March 2025

"Really Simple Serials": Your Substack publication is already syndicated. What that means and why it matters.

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication,” a tool that lets websites send updates—like new fantasy chapters—straight to users via a feed.

Mar 29 • 

Sam Liebl

5

Genre: growth Quarterly Review 🌱

Announcing the Genre: growth Quarterly Review, a literary review featuring genre fiction from across Substack. Submissions are open for fiction and…

Mar 21 • 

Sam Liebl

5

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Growing Your Audience Today: You just have to think bigger

Sam hosts AI expert David Jakopac, blending tech & creativity. From audience segmentation to AI visuals, they inspire bigger thinking for artists to…

Mar 18 • 

Sam Liebl

 and 

Dave Jakopac

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Get started with the social network side of Substack

Be a follower that only grows evergreensl recycle; repost; respect

Mar 9 • 

Sam Liebl

5

[NEW] Growing Genre Fiction on Substack

Doing more writing on growing and promoting your Substack.

Published on Eathel the Bastard • Mar 5

Growing Genre Fiction on Substack, p. 2

Hey ChatGPT: define 'genre fiction' as it is discussed in the context of internet culture and on a definitive, turning point where we can start to see…

Mar 4 • 

Sam Liebl

3

Join my new subscriber chat

A private space for us to converse and connect

Mar 4 • 

Sam Liebl

3

February 2025

What we'll be doing—told ex libris

"Genre: growth" is a new kind of Substack subscription designed to be short term: sign up, get paid subscribers, cancel. I think you'll find more than a…

Feb 28 • 

Sam Liebl

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