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He turned a viral Substack note into this charming book (opens the original)
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In early August, Lee Hopkins wrote four sentences about his granddaughter on a Sunday night and went to bed. By the time he woke up, close to 30,000 people had seen them, hundreds had replied, and more than a thousand had restacked. He told me on Book Drop this week that in all his years online, going back to the 90s, he’d never seen anything move like that.The note was simple. His granddaughter had told him the moon follows her home because it likes her, and that dogs can’t talk because they’re
Latest Indie Non-Fiction Books Worth Reading: The Substack Bookstore Active Catalogue (opens the original)
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Below is the current active non-fiction catalogue of The Substack Bookstore, spanning memoir, self-help, personal growth, business, health, parenting, pets, technology, writing, and more. These authors are part of a community that shows up for each other, and they’re hoping you’ll show up for them too.What these books have is this: a community of readers who understand that some of the most honest, useful, and genuinely surprising books being published right now are coming from indie authors, pe
The Debut Author Who Turned Sixteen Years of Innkeeping Into a Novel (opens the original)
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If you caught our fourth Book Drop live, you’ve already met Jill Meyer. If you missed it, here’s what you need to know before you press play.Jill spent sixteen years running two Cape Cod inns before she ever sat down to write a novel. Finding Scarlett is what came out the other side: a dual-timeline story about a secret, a Cape Cod bed and breakfast, and the kind of love that doesn’t stay buried forever. It’s her debut, written over three years at a kitchen table while raising five kids, and it’
Latest Indie Fiction Books Worth Reading: The Substack Bookstore Active Fiction Catalogue (opens the original)
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The best fiction you’ll read this year probably won’t find you on its own. It won’t appear on a publisher’s “recommended for you” list or sit face-out on a bookshop table. It was written by someone who answered only to their story, published it independently, and is now hoping the right readers find it.That’s where you come in.The Substack Bookstore’s active fiction catalogue spans more genres than most bookshops stock: cozy mysteries and Southern noir, romantasy and queer historical fiction, li
The Substack Bookstore Book Drop - Live with Fleur Hull & Jo Taylor (opens the original)
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They Wrote to Each Other for Fourteen Years and Never Once Met…Somewhere in a friend’s grandmother’s house, there was a long box. Inside it were letters, hundreds of them, tied together and kept safe through decades that included a war that would have made most people burn anything with a foreign postmark on it. Nobody in the family had read most of them. When the box finally landed in ’s hands, she read enough to understand what she was holding, and she made a promise. She would tell the story
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