Women artists who should be more famous: Sophie Treppendahl (b. 1991)

Last night I got invited to something extremely fab & incredibly New York: a launch party for Travel + Leisure’s new Substack The Fast Track (!!) 🤭✨

Nikki Vargas led an incredible panel with some fabulous Substackers that left me feeling in awe and inspired and like so many dreams are on their way to coming true for all of us writing on Substack. The column is officially back, baby!!

You can spend 5 years, working harder than anyone else, writing the best book in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then you will not be a successful author.

This is the downfall of most creatives. They hate marketing, but marketing is 80% of their success.

Infinite kudos to this woman who strung up a hammock between two trees in my local park to read her book

I don’t understand sports but to borrow a metaphor I’m pretty sure I’ve been “knocking it out of the park” (whatever that means) at Oldster Magazine and Memoir Land. If you agree with this assessment, get thee a paid subscription (or two) so I can keep it up. I keep my prices (ridiculously) low for daily publications that pay contributors. And I educate and entert…