Frances Mayes

@francesmayes · Proceed to the Route · Substack profile · Travel

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Frances Mayes has 8,712 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #34 on Substack's Travel Bestsellers board. 44 publications recommend them, and they recommend 9.

Followers read 7 days ago · Boards read 6 days ago

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 8,712; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 6.5K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: 100+; bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by: 44; none new in 30 days
Recommends: 9
Bestsellers rank: #34; Travel

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Frances Mayes on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	8,712		6.5K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Travel Bestsellers	#34	#34	4 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
Writer	Oct 3107:00	Oct 3113:00	Oct 3119:47	Nov 621:50	Move
Travel Bestsellers	34	34	34	34	0

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

44 publications recommend Frances Mayes. Frances Mayes recommends 9, and 6 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2025-01	2
2025-02	6
2025-03	1
2025-04	2
2025-05	2
2025-06	2
2025-07	4
2025-08	1
2025-09	1
2025-10	2
2025-11	2
2026-01	6
2026-02	1
2026-03	1
2026-04	4
2026-05	2
2026-07	1
2026-08	2
2026-09	2

Recommended by

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Ganderstarted May 18, 2026 · mutual
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All 44

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LeneBC’s Substackstarted Jun 2025
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Patti Callahan Henry started Apr 2025
Prompts From Paris by Jane Bertchstarted Apr 2025 · mutual
All Things Italy . . . and a little bit more started Mar 2025
Ciao Amalfistarted Feb 2025 · mutual
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Jeff Curto - At Home In Timestarted Feb 2025 · mutual
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Kathy McCabe Dreams ... At Midlifestarted Jan 2025 · mutual
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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.