Indie Lit Lounge has 5,051 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 51 publications recommend them, 5 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 17.
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
- 5,051
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 2.8K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- none shown
- Recommended by
- 51
- +5 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 17
- Bestsellers rank
- not on a board
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.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 5,051 | 2.8K+ |
Leaderboard positions
Not on a category leaderboard right now
Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.
Recommendations
51 publications recommend Indie Lit Lounge; 4 started in the last 30 days. Indie Lit Lounge recommends 17, and 4 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2025-06 | 3 |
| 2025-07 | 2 |
| 2025-08 | 3 |
| 2025-09 | 2 |
| 2025-10 | 7 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 3 |
| 2026-01 | 2 |
| 2026-03 | 3 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 4 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 6 |
| 2026-10 | 7 |
Recommended by
Debra King6.6k followers · started Jun 2025- Bryan Bealstarted Oct 30, 2026new
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- Maddox Clausingerstarted Oct 7, 2026
- Stephen Weinstockstarted Oct 5, 2026
- Find Your Colorsstarted Oct 1, 2026 · mutual
- Between Chaptersstarted Sep 28, 2026
- Spicy Serials by Adriennestarted Sep 13, 2026
- Ruth Delacourtstarted Sep 8, 2026 · mutual
- David Myrlandstarted Sep 7, 2026
- MJ's Substackstarted Sep 4, 2026
- Eagle Eye Translationsstarted Sep 1, 2026
- The Everytime Witchesstarted Aug 28, 2026
- Void Where Utteredstarted Aug 21, 2026
- Cocktails y Wisdomstarted Aug 20, 2026
- Reilly Conallstarted Aug 1, 2026
- Kenzie's Substackstarted Jul 29, 2026
- Poetic Ramblings on Lifestarted Jul 19, 2026
- Loren Galese, M.Ed, LPC, ACSstarted Jul 9, 2026
- kijknietlinks’s Substackstarted Jul 5, 2026
- Jerold's Substackstarted Jun 11, 2026
- Lover's Substackstarted Apr 5, 2026
All 51
- Lover's Substackstarted Apr 5, 2026
- StinaGenestarted Mar 25, 2026
- MIZIEYAstarted Mar 23, 2026
- The Ones Behind the Bookshelvesstarted Mar 11, 2026
- Jennie Dallimore started Jan 12, 2026
- Pretty. Gritty. Love Stories.started Jan 9, 2026
- A.M. Blackmerestarted Dec 11, 2025
- Axton Mitchellstarted Dec 7, 2025
- Tom Herrington - Authorstarted Dec 4, 2025
- Adrião Pereira da Cunhastarted Nov 20, 2025
- Come Into My Parlourstarted Nov 11, 2025
- CUT TO BLACKstarted Oct 2025
- The On Creating Substackstarted Oct 2025
- Dana’s Substackstarted Oct 2025
- Storm Whispererstarted Oct 2025
- Letters to my Soul Dogstarted Oct 2025
- The Threshold Dispatchstarted Oct 2025
- ARIA LIGIstarted Oct 2025
- Jonathan Welfordstarted Sep 2025
- Adelaide Rix: Dipping a Writing Toe Instarted Sep 2025
- The Rewritten Pathstarted Aug 2025
- Vanessa M. Chattman's Substack - Authorstarted Aug 2025
- Plot Twiststarted Aug 2025
- Empty Vesselsstarted Jul 2025
- Waving from A Distancestarted Jul 2025 · mutual
- The Writing Lifestarted Jun 2025 · mutual
- Dear Stranger started Jun 2025
Recommends
- Watson's House of Horrorsstarted Oct 29, 2026new
- The Tearoomstarted Oct 29, 2026new
- Find Your Colorsstarted Oct 29, 2026 · mutualnew
- Ruth Delacourtstarted Oct 29, 2026 · mutualnew
- Joyful Creatingstarted Oct 28, 2026new
- Kate Tremillsstarted Oct 28, 2026new
- Made From What's Not Realstarted Mar 30, 2026
- The Wild Sonnets | Nicholas Kornstarted Mar 22, 2026
- Write Wildstarted Nov 11, 2025
- Rhoda Weber Mackstarted Nov 2025
- The Saddletramp Universestarted Nov 2025
- Waving from A Distancestarted Aug 2025 · mutual
- House of Lettersstarted Jun 2025
- The Common Readerstarted Jun 2025
- The Writing Lifestarted Jun 2025 · mutual
- Little Thoughts, Big Feelingsstarted Jun 2025
- Momentum Musestarted Jun 2025
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.
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