Rising on Substack this week: International

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.

Plestia

13k followers · #3 International Rising

+10 in 30 days 32 in all

14 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Claudia Faith

39k followers · #39 International Bestsellers

+9 in 30 days 60 in all

20 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Veronica Llorca-Smith 🍋

31k followers · #41 International Bestsellers

+9 in 30 days 56 in all

24 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Kristina God

59k followers · #14 International Bestsellers

+8 in 30 days 61 in all

27 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Middle East Uncovered

28k followers · #46 International Rising

+8 in 30 days 52 in all

11 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Phillips P. OBrien

230k followers · #1 International Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days 76 in all

25 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Emerging Value

13k followers · #18 International Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 50 in all

11 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Michael McFaul

118k followers · #7 International Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 57 in all

6 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Ana Calin

103k followers · #10 International Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 55 in all

16 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Debra Shushan

6.2k followers · #35 International Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 51 in all

13 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Akram Kharief MENADEFENSE

4.8k followers · #33 International Rising

+5 in 30 days 25 in all

10 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Tim Mak

290k followers · #2 International Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 83 in all

15 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.