Rising on Substack this week: Fiction

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

Amy Suto

77k followers · #16 Fiction Bestsellers

50+ in 30 days 51 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

The Shit About Writing Team

110k followers · #3 Fiction Bestsellers

+26 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 58 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Simone Harris

11k followers · #44 Fiction Bestsellers

+15 in 30 days 49 in all

34 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

After Dinner Conversation

108k followers · #31 Fiction Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days 56 in all

43 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

mort the write or die vulture

68k followers · #5 Fiction Bestsellers

+11 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 53 in all

22 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

The Romantasy

25k followers · #75 Fiction Bestsellers

+11 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 51 in all

26 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Tobin Elliott 🇨🇦 Horror Guy

1.1k followers

+11 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 26 in all

20 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Brenda Nasr

406 followers · #78 Fiction Rising

+10 in 30 days 18 in all

18 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Ruminations

233 followers

+10 in 30 days 10 in all

10 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

a literary mole | sub club

101k followers · #1 Fiction Bestsellers

+9 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 61 in all

25 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

No More Shitty Books

151k followers · #82 Fiction Bestsellers

+9 in 30 days 50 in all

18 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Kate Valentine

4.4k followers · #76 Fiction Bestsellers

+9 in 30 days 55 in all

24 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.