Letters from Ximena

Welcome to your new favorite writing community! Discuss & demystify publishing with candid interviews, fresh writing tips, & publishing intel from a NYT bestselling thriller author. (Public posts = book news and occasional literary satire). Join us!

honest advice about making a career as an author today

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

Helping sensitive writers embrace creative seasons, rest practices, curiosity, and self-compassion, from the author of WILD WORDS and EAT THIS POEM.

Psychologist and professor Jacqueline Nesi shares the latest research on technology and the people who use it, plus practical tips for living and parenting in the digital age.

Bestselling novelist and bookstore owner Emma Straub has a lot to say, and this is where to read it.

News and analysis about the book publishing industry that you won't read anywhere else.

Your essential guide to what’s good on the internet. Written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci.

A weekly selection of drawings by New Yorker cartoonist and matador Liana Finck, sent out on Wednesdays. Paid subscribers will also get a Sunday email of autobiographical comics, process drawings, and other behind-the-scenes things. www.lianafinck.com

A newsletter that brings science and nuance to parenting advice and challenges fear-mongering, shame-inducing content.

A newsletter about working in social media.

Deep dives into fiction and the art of storytelling through craft insights, book explorations, essays on the creative journey, and practical guidance for aspiring authors, all designed to inspire your own creative path.

A twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process, with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.

Ideas, inspiration, and provocations for creativity, work, and staying human. From author Rob Walker.

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2025 it begins 5/31!)

A newsletter for curious, thoughtful readers who miss the “old” internet.

We are people who happen to be mothers.

A newsletter that's pro-Big-Life-Changes. Creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, after publishing, and after moving 11,000 times. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, laugh, and feel. Sorry.

Think more about the culture that surrounds you