Leanne by the Sea

Leanne by the Sea

About the Substack

A newsletter with a sense of place: the grit, the grace, and the grind of living, reading, and writing in California.

Free Subscription Benefits

• Newsletters; book reviews; human-authored fiction, essays & poetry; two monthly livestreams; California places, history, wildlife, and culture; California study guides.

Paid Subcription Benefits

• Access to The Write Stuff library of 220+ articles & essays on craft & the writing life by prize-winning writer, certified triple threat book coach Leanne Phillips.
• One or two new The Write Stuff lessons each month, including article, on-topic deep dive links, on-topic The Write Stuff links, and video.
• Paid annual subscribers as of 12/31/2026 will receive a FREE one-year upgrade to The Scribblers Club through 12/31/2027.

Paid Subscription Plans

• $9.50 a month
• $80 a year

About Leanne Phillips

Writer, book coach, editor. Lifelong Californian. Sharer of books, writing hacks, nature photos, and TMI. Maker of bad decisions and big mistakes. Debut novel California Is an Earthquake coming 9/07/27 from Sibylline Press.