The Publishing Spectrum
by Amanda N. BrayThe Publishing Spectrum
About the Substack
Editorial and audience deep dives for independent publishers on Substack. Instruments for understanding your publication, your audience and where your creative work is going next.
Free Subscription Benefits
- Occasional posts on what's shifting in audience behavior, editorial practice and the platform itself — from the advisor who ran the first Substack Reader Survey.
Paid Subcription Benefits
- 🧰 A new publishing tool each month — built from the methods Amanda uses to understand publications, and designed to help you see something in your own work more clearly.
- 🔎 Go inside one publishing question each month — from first Substack impressions and audience dynamics to offers, publishing rhythm, editorial direction and more.
- 💬 Bring what you find back to the room — weekly threads w/Amanda and the contributor circle, plus monthly live sessions to talk through what you’re seeing and what to do
Paid Subscription Plans
- $15 a month
- $150 a year
About Amanda N. Bray
Publishing advisor, longtime editor, autistic. Nearly two decades helping messages travel and studying how audiences wake up. Here on Substack I'm sharing publishing tools to help you understand your writing and your people.
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