Sheila Pierce

@sheilapierceortona · Missives from a Metropolis · Substack profile · Travel

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Sheila Pierce has 1,142 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #100 on Substack's Travel Bestsellers board. 19 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 15.

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: 1,142; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 893; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: 100+; bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by: 19; +1 in 30 days
Recommends: 15
Bestsellers rank: #100; 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 Sheila Pierce on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	1,142		893

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Travel Bestsellers	#100	#100	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	100	100	100	100	0

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

19 publications recommend Sheila Pierce; 1 started in the last 30 days. Sheila Pierce recommends 15, and 7 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
2022-09	1
2023-01	1
2023-02	1
2023-05	1
2023-06	1
2023-11	1
2024-02	1
2024-09	1
2024-10	1
2024-12	1
2025-06	1
2025-07	2
2025-11	1
2026-07	3
2026-08	1
2026-10	1

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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.