✍️ Bestselling Author & Top 25 Substacker 💌 [email protected] ⬇️ all my things!
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my romantic thriller LET ME BE YOUR GHOST comes out november 18. preorder it in hardcover, paperback, or kindle from any retailer, upload your order confirmation on my site, and my unreleased book HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR lands in your inbox, free. the free book comes with preorders only. last day to preorder: november 17 (midnight pacific). link in the replies ⬇️
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i rang up my own novel and the second book scanned at $0.00.
preorder my romantic thriller LET ME BE YOUR GHOST (out november 18) in hardcover, paperback, or kindle from any retailer, upload your order confirmation on my site, and my never-published book HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR comes free.
the free book comes with preorders only. last day to preorder: november 17 (midnight pacific). the address is on the slip.
ALT Till slip under both book covers: one romantic thriller, one memoir guide at $0.00, sale ends Nov 17 midnight PT. Preorder and claim at amysuto.com/ghost.
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thriller readers trust no narrator, suspect every character, and still believe the stranger in the bookstore who says "you have to read this one."
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if you can research and finish a whole book, you can learn to run a business. katie ludlow rich read the books, talked sales with her husband, and in her words: "these business related skills are also learnable skills." from my substack live with @katieludlowrich ⬇️
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the full conversation with katie ludlow rich: youtu.be/u7A00Xf_xQc
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Olivia Wickstrom built 1:1 office hours in about a day when she went full-time on Substack. At one point she had a two-month waitlist. Even after raising her prices, the calls were a lot for an introvert. From my Substack Live with @oliviawickstrom.
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indie author math: on amazon i keep 70% of an ebook sale (for ebooks priced $2.99 to $9.99). a traditionally published author might get 10 to 30%, depending on the deal.
that difference is what pays for my book tour. full video on my youtube, @sutoscience
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9 days until my romantic thriller LET ME BE YOUR GHOST comes out on november 18. preorder it in hardcover, paperback, or kindle, upload your order confirmation on my site, and my never-published guide 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 ⬇️
LET ME BE YOUR GHOST is a featured title on NetGalley 🖤 my romantic thriller is sitting in their "romance books to warm you up" lineup, next to a karen kingsbury christmas novel, which feels about right for a book with a lighthouse in it.
if you review books, request a free early copy before it comes out november 18. once you're approved you can send it straight to your kindle. she was sent to destroy him. she fell in love with him instead. 18+. link in the replies ⬇️
ALT Screenshot of NetGalley's Romance books to warm you up row with Let Me Be Your Ghost by Amy Suto outlined in pink. Text: Featured on NetGalley, request your free early copy.
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request it on NetGalley here: netgalley.com/catalog/book/9…
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"the work gets done by the willing." katie ludlow rich (@katieludlowrich) said this on my substack live and it stuck with me. permission for a big writing project comes from your willingness to go after it, whatever your credentials say ⬇️
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the full conversation with katie ludlow rich: youtu.be/u7A00Xf_xQc
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Almost everything Olivia Wickstrom (@oliviawickstrom) writes on Substack is free. Her paywall holds one thing, serialized content: a year-long series where she works with coaches from fitness to finance, and paid subscribers go through the coaching with her.
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my whole bookstore pitch is 3 lines: here's my background, here's what i can bring to the event, here's the book.
that's how i'm booking the tour for LET ME BE YOUR GHOST. full video on my youtube, @sutoscience
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10 days until LET ME BE YOUR GHOST, my romantic thriller, comes out on november 18. 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. the free book comes with preorders only. last day to preorder: november 17 (midnight pacific). link in the replies ⬇️
katie ludlow rich's editing rule, which i'm now stealing: fix the story before the sentences. global is the whole book, regional is a few chapters, local is a paragraph. if the arc needs to change, polishing commas is wasted time. from my live with @katieludlowrich ⬇️
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the full conversation with katie ludlow rich: youtu.be/u7A00Xf_xQc
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Olivia Wickstrom's rule for Substack Notes: every note needs a clear job for the reader. Entertain, transform, or educate. Then give each day of the week its own kind of note, so batching gets easier. From my Substack Live with @oliviawickstrom.
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2 books in 1 year, 2 very different launches. in january i had a publicist, a book marketer and a virtual assistant. for LET ME BE YOUR GHOST (out november 18), it's just me.
full breakdown on my youtube, @sutoscience
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LET ME BE YOUR GHOST is in the news ❤️📕 Local News Matters put it in Bay City Books, their roundup of new books by norcal authors.
thank you @baynewsmatters and Linda Lenhoff for including it. the write-up calls it a bay area-set romantic thriller about a memoir ghostwriter who's been sharing her clients' confessions with the FBI, and lists my santa cruz + san francisco tour stops.
link in the replies ⬇️
ALT Amy Suto beside the Let Me Be Your Ghost cover, as pictured in Local News Matters, next to the headline Bay City Books: New books by NorCal authors, October to November 2026
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read the full roundup: localnewsmatters.org/2026/11…
out november 18. preorder by november 17 and get my unreleased book HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR free: amysuto.com/let-me-be-your-g…
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katie ludlow rich built a history professor for her second novel, wondered what that professor would research, and realized she wanted to do it herself. she set the novel aside. it led to a history book and her ghostwriting business. from my live with @katieludlowrich ⬇️
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the full conversation with katie ludlow rich: youtu.be/u7A00Xf_xQc
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Olivia Wickstrom gave her Substack one year. If nothing happened in 12 months, she'd move on. Around month nine, a note went viral, then her Pinterest article took off. From my Substack Live with @oliviawickstrom.
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indie authors: if you're not on netgalley yet, this is your sign. it's the most effective ARC platform i've used, and it puts your book in front of bookstagrammers, librarians and booksellers you'd never reach on your own.
full video on my youtube, @sutoscience
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