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SC Godfrey is the author of The Enigma Challenge, A Very Typical Family, and The Second Chance Hotel. This newsletter covers interesting facts, book news, and monthly book recs.
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The 2026 birthday interview 🎂 (opens the original)
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Every year I interview myself for my birthday in a spectacular display of navel-gazing. Nevertheless, I always have fun (mostly because I am asking the questions). So here we go for 2026.Me: Happy birthday again, Sierra!Sierra: Thanks! Appreciate that.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Ll-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa5b4db1-9d4d-4a10-8bea-8db6839a6825_744
Publishing a book on Substack: A conversation with author Elizabeth Richardson (opens the original)
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One of the things I love most about Substack and being an author is making new author friends. And one I’m especially thrilled to know is author Elizabeth Richardson, who contacted me to be a guest on my podcast, Heartracers, which I host with bookstore owner, Claire Bone of Wild Sisters Book Co in Sacramento, CA. Her episode is live as of today.<div class="cap
Changing genres and names mid-career: what to know (opens the original)
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Have you seen an author come out with a new book, but their name is now just their initials (ahem, me)? Or maybe a favorite author who wrote a romance series is now writing romantasy or thriller. Or maybe you don’t notice at all, but you think “That author sounds familiar.”There are a lot of reasons for The Pivot, as we call it: changing direction or name. Especially for authors who want a years-long career. Today I’m talking with the incredible author Andromeda Romano-Lax about changing names a
12 new fall books I preordered (opens the original)
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My reading habits are pretty split among all genres, but longtime readers know I like both thrills and romance (shocker). Here’s what caught my attention and made me actually click preorder for books publishing this fall:5 thrillers/horror 5 romantasies 2 general fiction If you do math, which I don’t, that’s 12 book here in this post. Also: preorder is a bit of a catch-all term. Some of these I have reserved from my library or on Netgalley. But they’re mostly preorders.<a class="image-link image
August group therapy 📚 (opens the original)
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Author Jennie Godfrey (no relation) recently wrote a post about how she’s going through something at the moment, but she can talk about recent reads, and what a pleasure that is (link). And it IS!! I was thinking about that a bit, thinking how books are a safe space for most of us. Recently I was in a bookstore with my son and he said “Bookstores always smell the same,” and I said, “Yes. They smell like HEAVEN.”And books are</e
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