This is the favorite time of year for many of us. (Some of us keep that Autumn spirit going year round.) Time to bring that out in your writing with stories that fit the season and maybe even your fave recipes such as pumpkin pie with something special added. And the approach of Halloween (Samhain) means that you can feature all sorts of creepy creatures and weird events. I, personally, am looking forward to them all.
NOTE: If anyone doesn’t wish to be tagged here, please let me know. The tagging is meant to help writers be seen, not annoy them. Remember, Chat is a narrow alley and Notes is a wide boulevard.
Before I get to the list, a note for you all:
@Fictionistas headed by @Meg Olders will be holding a virtual meetup. Treats are BYO! Details here.
The List in alphabetical order (fiction, non-fiction and a designer or two for your micropatronage):
Rather than split the list, I’m presenting them all together, partly because I don’t want to feel excluded from either list.
Pick and choose. And explore Substack. My list is far from complete. And I am happy to say that lots of these people don’t stoop to the fakery of AI (artificial intelligence) which should be called AP (advanced programming) for their writing. (Sadly, a number of those listed here feel compelled to use AI to generate images.)
Wanna catch the eye of readers? A great way is to be bold and post in NOTES links to your tomes (no matter how large or small), to your ’Stack, and even to your author website if you have one!
dhw=definitely human written (might be using AI-generated images, though) — Please let me know if you wish to be designated as “dhw.”
TH=writers whom I have nominated for Team Halloween!
– Victorian Vignettes (dhw) TH – Spirit Animals – quite useless (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Book of Time – H.’s Discount Writing Outlet – The Strangeness Kit – Crockerfeller Tales TH – Unsettled Mind, TH – Adam Writes (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) TH – Inspired by True Events with Adam Rockwell (dhw) – On the Storytelling Animal (dhw) – The Pantheon Chronicles – Bugaboo Writing – Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic TH – Mostly Harmless Ideas (non-fiction) – Screen Views – A. Hellene Author – Tales from the Defrag TH – A Million Stars, A Million Wishes – Historical Fiction Stack (dhw) – Jared’s Substack – Monsters & Mystics (dhw) TH , TH – Mirth as Medicine (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Matte & Shiny Objects (dhw) – Attempts to Tell the Truth (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Your Grandma's Substack (dhw) – TV’s Moral Philosophy – Andrew’s Fiction Writing Substack (seen on The Booster Club) – Goatfury Writes (definitely therianthrope written) – Andy Futuro (dhw) TH – The Irrational Sage – Microseasons – Ann's Substack – Tides and Seasons UK – Resolution & Independence – Keyboard Philosophy – EvangelosSciFi (dhw) – Captain Kekistan (dhw) – Pretty Evil Fiction, TH – B Stings – Writing After Dark (dhw) – The Grand Page – Pen of Ben – Scribbler (dhw) – Catch & Release – A Very Narrow Bridge – Fiction by Bill Adler (dhw) TH - also posts cute pix of cats in Japan – Everywhere and Nowhere: Explore Fantastic Worlds (dhw, with help from faerie ancestors) TH – Blackthorn Witch, TH – Reina’s Substack (dhw) – An Ordinary Disaster (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – 5:20 Pacific – The Write Books (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Writing on a Whim – Telegrams from Bloodstream City, TH – Horror Weekly, TH – The World from a Chef’s Perspective – A short story a day (new writer looking for feedback on writing style) – Naptime Novelist – Love and Other Fictions – It's the Devil, TH – Writing on the Ledge (dhw) – Wishbone Poetry – Dreams In The Void (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Otherdaddy – Lit Smithery (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Carina's Newsletter – Minuteman’s Monitor – There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast – Caro’s Writing Perspectives (dhw) TH – SwampWitch (dhw) TH – Caroline’s Newsletter (dhw) – An Enchanted Life (dhw) – When in Doubt, Walk in a Circle (dhw) TH – The Legend of Leanna Page (dhw) – Charles’ Substack – Haver & Sparrow – Castles in the Sky (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – The World of Yesterday (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Charlotte Dune’s Lagoon – The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon TH – (((LIFE UPDATES))) Chasey – Tales of the Zeitgeist (dhw) – Toasted Fiction with Chris Patrick – Neon Crosses - Chris Queen, and – New writers challenge coming up in Feb. 2025! (dhw) – Chris from Monster Complex, TH – Story Voyager – Past the Dragon – BoldBrush, Clinsights (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Synopsis (dhw) – KILL THE LION (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Cole’s Chapters – Colin's Substack – Colin’s Dark Stories (dhw) TH – Craig’s Cabinet of Meagre Offerings, The Wednesday Audio (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Cyndi’s Dark Fiction TH – Missing Verses – Steam Stack – detect magic (dhw) TH – Indulging a Second Look (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Adventures in English – And the Quest for Pop Culture – Lamp Post in the Marsh TH – Writers Of The Lost Art – David B. Corder – Rediscover - Reconnect – David’s Substack – Stories of Many Kinds (dhw) – How to Write for a Living – Made from What’s Not Real (dhw) TH – The Artifact – No Cause for Merriment – Declan’s Newsletter – Devany’s Dalliances’ – Dirt Boots | A serialized novel by Australian Foodie TH – Substack by DL White – Dominus Markham – Donn’s WYKKYD AMBITIONS – Knowing Self Knowing Others (non-fiction) – Directed Fiction – The Dragon's Den (dhw) – Design Fiction Daily – Dungeon Mistress Chronicles, TH – Exploring the Eyrie (dhw) TH – It’s for a Story – Chronicles of the Tale-Keeper – EA Mayes' Mysteriousities – Edmund Muller – From the Future (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Age of Aquarius (dhw) – Elijah’s Substack – Avenue Oh – A Writing Diary by E.P. Woodhouse – The Elder of Vicksburg – Falden’s Forge – maximus – Your Friendly Neighborhood Abberation – Erica Drayton Writes – The Wandering Wonderer – The Midnight Blue Sea – just a guy – Return to Your Trees – The Eternal Art, TH – Crossbite – cajunconfederatemonarchist (dhw) – Senchas Claideb – Going Narrative with Fabrina Glitchlace – Felix's Fertile Feed (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Felix Chamber (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – In A Moment – Vampires & The Vapors, TH – Garbage Notes (spec fic, poet) TH – Frank’s Shorts – Pulp Vitalist (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Pulp, Pipe, & Poetry, The Pulp Fictioneer (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – V.T.’s Substack – Making by the Law in Which We're Made – Mr. D’s Newsletter – A Symposium of Fire – Garhom’s Substack – Travel is Dangerous (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Artwork by G.N. Barnes – Fourth Castle on the Left – Ginger’s Substack, TH – The Elephant Island Chronicles – The Words Whispers (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – SHE WHO STIRS THE STORM (dhw) – Good Sleep Substack – Grace’s Spook Show TH – The House of Rest – Games of Awareness, You'll Never Walk Alone (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Editor, Disturb Ink Books | Co-Founder, Unsettling Reads TH – H. is for Horror, TH – The Wyldwood (dhw) – The Sudden Walk – A work of fiction, TH - new novel just published – Fields & Energy (non-fiction) – Dharma Bum Poetess (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Fragments and Pieces (dhw) – Gently Does It – Conversations with Critters (dhw) TH – Henya's Newsletter – Honeygloom (dhw) TH – Self Expression -> Self Help – Three Hundred Tang Poems – Writing Until the Light Goes Out – Out of Ika’s Mind (dhw) – Ilmahn’s Substack – TOAP – Long Oddities – The Indian Story (dhw) – Of Cabbages and Kings – Rediscovered Realms – Volt /and/ Fable – Creative Seasoning – 365 Infantry – Resoldiers Retcon Repo – World Without End LoreJames Hart –
(dhw) – And Now, A Sonnet (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Just Write – Jamie’s Substack, owner of Conservatarian Press - affiliated with – Neon Crosses - Chris Queen, and Amethyst (dhw) - New writers challenge coming up in Feb. 2025! (dhw) – niottu by James Leth – Jane Sez… (seen on The Booster Club) – Jasini’s Tales and Ideas – Jalan Jalan Journal – Mostly Fiction – Thread – Through a Glass, Darkly (dhw) TH – Zuko’s Musings – Jenna B. Neece - Author & Podcaster (dhw) - check out Magical Manifestations podcast TH – Autumn Lives Here (dhw) TH – Bottled Embers (dhw) – JENOVIA'S WEB – Good Tuna by Jeremy – Jerry’s Substack – Monster of the Week (dhw) TH – Humans Leading (non-fiction) – The Cat's Cradle: Stories & More – Writing Wrongs (dhw) – Jim Melvin’s Realms of Fantasy (dhw) TH – Jo-Ann Carson's Substack – Jodie Beckford (dhw) – Strange New Worlds (dhw) TH – Written Ward – Thunderbolt Fiction – Ferns of Columbo – Substack von jonasT (in German) (new here - stop by and say "hi") TH – Crann Na Beatha (dhw) – Josh Tatter Has Thoughts – The Storyteller’s Corner – Joyce's Place (dhw) TH – Dispatches from Bohemian Splendor (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Stay Grounded (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Cactus Flowers – Having Written with K.M. Bennett – Damsel in the Library (dhw) – Kait's Writing Lair – Kaleb’s Substack – Write It Out (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Karen's Substack – Words of FabianSpace – Karun's Substack (seen on The Booster Club) – The Fantastic and Mundane Chronicles of a Fantasy Writer TH – Motley Stories (dhw) – Create Me Free – Mommy’s Writing a Novel – News Sidequest – Hayden Academy Collective (HAC) Studios: Backstage – Characters on Call (dhw) – Spirit Seeds – Tomorrow the World – Echoes From the Well (dhw) TH – Vindicators (dhw) – Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan – Psychophysical (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Tales from the Bazaar (dhw) – Tales from the Infinitum – Cosmic Kudos (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Substack von King (in German) – Down the Rabbit Hole – Tap Water Sommelier (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Koshmarov’s Substack – Worlds of Kummer Wolfe (dhw) – Time Stands Still – The Trials of Astra – LucTalks – Lark's Letters – Laura R. Hepworth - Bookwyrms (dhw) – Cobwebs and Candles, TH – The Salty Witch (dhw, well actually supernaturally written) TH – Long Ago & Far Away – The Môrdreigiau Chronicles (dhw) – Fisherman Tales – Station 101 – Halcyon Horror (dhw) TH – Leona Marie Writes – Paper Knife – Shimmers of Being (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – The Library of Celaeno – Life As Women Laughing (dhw, seen on The Booster Club) – Lilyput’s Substack – Grace & Space – Every Day is Halloween, TH – The Palace of Night, TH – The Lizzy Co Show – Sessions with Dr. Botgore – Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed TH – Luke Burgis Newsletter (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – luke harold’s substack TH – Just Enough to Get Me in Trouble (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – The Vaporous Realms – Radio Cosmos (dhw) – Cosmographia (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – The Midwest Creative – Macy Sees The World – Aryan Intergalactic – SamuraiPunk – Maia Writes – knightsofautumncrown – The Magic Lantern – Marisa’s Substack – How About This (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – The Traveling Circus (dhw) TH – The Pen and the Sword Journal – The Roll Top Desk (dhw) – writer – Wannabe Vampire, TH – Meaningful Differences – Luxamanastria – The Inciting Incident with Mata Haggis-Burridge (dhw) TH – Matrixbearer’s Substack – Doodle Bin – Targeted Nightmares, TH – The Rewrite Newsletter – Siddell (read The Song of E'a) – Creative License (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Surviving with Panache (dhw) – AroundSciFi - Read - Imagine - Discover (dhw) TH – Chiapas Missions – The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry – Life Crumbs (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Together There – THE FICTION DEALER (does writing prompts) – A Shadow of Yew (dhw) TH – Writings of Milton Lane – Spread Love, Only Love (dhw, poetry) – The Futureness (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Travel: NE Where – Newton's Tales of the Macabre TH – This Nick Writes (dhw) – Tranith Argan Fantasy Series (dhw) – So, Long Story Short – Books and Boos, with Nicolina Torres TH – Stories Like That – The World of Niko Pulp (dhw) – The Norman Crane TH – The Finnish Meat Guy (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Babel Babble, Fictitious (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – First Principles Screenwriting – Wednesday Afternoon – oray’s Substack – Macabre Curiosities TH – Twisting the Myths (dhw) – The Zeitville Chronicle (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – PaullyD’s Substack – PC3 Horror TH – My Own Little World – Cotswold Capers – Cursed Murphy’s Substack – Life of Agency (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Pinnacle's Substack – Queen of Oversharing – R. H. Snow’s Deep Thoughts from the Dubble-wide of D00m – R.J. Huneke’s Insight Into Writing | Insight Into Writing – Science Fiction IRL – Wolf – Rand's Substack – Nerdy QA Girl's Substack (seen on The Booster Club) – ReddOscarWrites – Indie Fiction Digest – All My Dreams Are Red – Enfant Terrible (seen on Stardust Press) – Offbeat Chronicles – Renee George's UF/ PNR Suspense Fiction – Resonant Media Arts – The World of Ar’rin – author of “dog and pony show” – Stories Have Power – Listening Sessions – Writing While Farming – Robert Collins' Author Substack (seen on The Booster Club) – Robert's Substack (dhw) TH – Earthly Delights – A Journey of Words TH – The Artistic Self – Writing a Better World (dhw) – Authorise – Childlike Soul Newsletters – The Author Stack – willspan – 𐌉𐌃𐌉Ꝋ𐌕𐌄𐌒𐌵𐌄 (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Cravarian Realms (dhw) – Daydreams & Doomsdays – S. Dumont’s Corner, TH – The Forgotten Library – Sabrina Rosen's Storytime – The Uses of Art – Clueless Spectator – Ghost Notes (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Treats of Writing – Caravanserai with Samantha Childress (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – SANDOLORE SYKES – Expressions – SCIENTIA (non-fiction) – Gibberish – Son of Ugly – Scrawls of the Dread’s Substack (dhw) TH – Coracle Voyager – Cauldron (non-fiction) – Writer's Odyssey, TH – Sporadic Press – Her serial – ShadowGame – Kindling – Feats N' Faults (dhw) – LEAVES – Studio Diaries – The Warriors Hub Newsletter (dhw) – Fyle Stories – Cream of The Crop (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – The Horror! The Horror! TH – Slow Burn Horror’s Substack, TH – Snowy Hearts, host of Menagerie Morning! (dhw) TH – Stella Maris Designs (dhw) – Risk Musings (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Fourth Draft – The New Muse series – Steven Vickers: SF and Fantasy – The Absurd Version – The Mind-Soul Sanctum, TH – So Much Stuff – The Wild and the Quiet, TH – Courageous Conversations – svndavn stories, TH – Swing's Substack – Living an Authentic Life – Writer TCRoss's Substack – London Fitness. World's greatest Fitness Substack (non-fiction) – Tell Me a Mystery – Tenkage HQ – Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Three Lives of Jury – Shadows and Space (dhw), TH – Bros Krynn’s Newsletter (dhw) – The Casual Writer – The Crazy Cat Lady Writes – The Crusader's Castle, TH – The Delinquent Academic (dhw) – Downstream Pulp – Tales of Calamity and Triumph (dhw) – The Pro Wrestling Exuberant – The Ramen Bowl – The Rewind – The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell – The Way Teller’s Aetheric Emporium – Windflower (dhw) – Soaring Twenties, The Soaring Twenties Social Club, The Commonplace (AI strictly forbidden) – TnTCreationz by Tiffanie (dhw, great cover art and more) - cheer her on in her 1000 words a day challenge participation! – Timothy’s Substack – Loves & Lies Lit – Hylandian/Alliance Author’s Newsletter (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Trial & Error – The Power of Change – Dracula’s Ghost, TH – I won't keep you (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – trina keeps trying – When will you rest, dear heart? – Pandora’s Box of Infinite Stories, TH – Who Will Save Her? – Nova Nevédoma (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Vic's Verdict (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Victoria’s Books & Short Stories – Salted Wetzel with a side of mustard – Vivian’s Substack – Von’s Substack – Peregino – Wendy's Kitchen & More – Happy Tales (dhw) – Wendy’s Newsletter – Heavy is the Headset – Chiefly Lyrical, RUINS (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Horror & Comics Unlimited, TH – DOOM FICTION (dhw) TH – Storyletter Xpress Publishing (indie publisher) – Words in Bloom Stories and Poems – Written Tales Magazine Kevin, editor – Wyatt Werne (dhw) TH – Xander’s Substack (YA horror, thrillers, urban fantasies) TH – The Not-Yet-Novelist – The Lake of Lerna (dhw) – Letters on Being (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – yuelian's rough drafts (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – Realms – Infinite Dominion (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties) – The Fascio Newsletter – Moonlight Bard’s Rhapsody in RealmsMore Ways to Be Seen!
The more ways for us writers to be seen, the better! My little list is just one small way. Here are some others so far:
Soaring Twenties, a tri-weekly newsletter and monthly magazine run by a collective of creatives, collaborating to make the internet human again. Run by
and . Strictly for HUMAN creatives. No AI. Hooray!The Library, curated by
and . Promotes writers on Substack and also those who are published. How to Submit. Also check out their Buy Indie page. Browse the Stacks by category.Top in Fiction, run by
. Posts a weekly lists of items she likes.The Tall Tales Fiction Critique Community, started and run by
.Auraist, started and run by
. Highlights books for your perusal (some stuff is behind a paywall). Check them out and let me know what you think.The Booster Club, started and run by
. Read this post to see what they are about.Read More Books, run by
. A place to discuss what you have read and possibly find other things to read.How to support other writers here:
Restack something you enjoy
Subscribe, even as a free subscriber (there are still quite a few people hoping to make a living off their writing here, but they appreciate your eyeballs either way)
Follow here and on other social media
Publisher Spotlight
Your opportunities to get your work published are evolving. One of the latest is right on Substack, where people like these are seeking out your works and either presenting them in print or online (or both in some cases).
Written Tales Magazine – Kevin, Editor
Storyletter Xpress Publishing –
Some Genre (Theme) Days
See my article: Publisher Agent Fiction Genres Defined, with downloadable PDF.
Genre (mystery, romance, sci-fi, drama, horror, historical, etc.)
Literary (usually anything that’s not of a specific genre and often considered to be more focused on ideas that plot, characters, etc., but I beg to differ)
These genre days are great opportunities to showcase your work and are also inspirational!
Here’s a list, showing the “host(s)” who often do a summary of the posts:
NEW! Mystery Monday – hosted by
Teaser Tuesday – started by
(knightsofautumncrown)Terran Tuesday – hosted by
, ,Warrior Wednesday – hosted by
(might be switching to Chat)Readers/Writers Wednesday – I do this post, others welcome to post their own lists; the more, the merrier (changing to bi-weekly)
Wonder Wednesday – As stated above, I’ll be posting a summary of holiday appropriate posts every other Wednesday, starting with Scary September posts and going through Crazy Christmas posts
Thorny Thursday – hosted by Kathrine Elaine (summary done mid-month)
Throwback Thursday – hosted and created by
Sci-Friday – host unknown, started by
(aka Goatfury)Sword & Saturday – hosted by
(might be switching to Chat)———
Keep writing! The readers are out there, anxiously waiting.
Please check out my author website. And thanks for reading.
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Thanks for reading. Please check out my first book of recently published eerie short stories (ebook, paperback, audio), and my new book of eerie Sci-Fi stories (Kindle and paperback), both from Wordwooze Publishing. (I even designed the covers.) A third book will be out in a few days: The Wiccan Tales. A real Halloween treat. I will be posting an excerpt or two plus the cover design before then.
See them all here:
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Apple Books | Kobo | Thalia (German) ebook & print | Smashwords | Angus & Robertson: | Mondadori (Italian) | Vivlio (French/English) | Fable | Palace Marketplace
Thanks!! I hope some people make it to the bottom of the list. Second guessing my pen name now 😂
Thanks for including me in the list!
I can assure you that I am a living, breathing, flesh and blood, human being—I just can’t draw to save my life. So, I’ve enlisted AI as my personal Picasso. The AI images are just fancy hats for my words.