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Feb 24, 2025 | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat |Nancy Reddy
Upgrade to paid to play voiceoverAre you a mother? Do you know one? Then you’ve seen firsthand how the title “mom” comes with a heavy load of expectations—especially in America. Mothers are told to be selfless yet ambitious, nurturing yet independent, and to somehow do it all—often alone. But this vision of motherhood is built on outdated myths that make parenting harder than it needs to be — for mothers and fathers alike.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Nancy Reddy
Author Nancy Reddy shares 5 key insights from her new book, The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
themillions.com | Nancy Reddy
Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath is a deeply researched, beautifully written look at Plath’s complicated legacy and what the writers’s life can tell us about womanhood, ambition, domestic violence, and artmaking. Van Duyne writes the book as both a Plath scholar and a “superfan,” and as someone whose own experience of domestic violence gave her a lens into Plath’s violent marriage to the poet Ted Hughes.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
everand.com | Nancy Reddy
Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath is a deeply researched, beautifully written look at Plath’s complicated legacy and what the writers’s life can tell us about womanhood, ambition, domestic violence, and artmaking. Van Duyne writes the book as both a Plath scholar and a “superfan,” and as someone whose own experience of domestic violence gave her a lens into Plath’s violent marriage to the poet Ted Hughes.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
writersdigest.com | Nancy Reddy
As any writer who’s published anything from a short story to a novel knows, there’s a world of difference between writing something beautiful and actually getting it in front of readers, and the same is true with your author newsletter. Once you’ve decided to start an author newsletter, figured out the readers you’re aiming to reach, and developed a content strategy, how do you go about actually getting your newsletter into those readers’ inboxes?
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
writersdigest.com | Nancy Reddy
The surest way to let any writing project sputter out is to work on it only when inspiration strikes. That might be doubly true for a newsletter, which is even easier to let drop from your list than the novel you’ve been dreaming up for years or the memoir whose story you feel compelled to share.
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May 29, 2024 | 
writersdigest.com | Nancy Reddy
Maybe you read my previous piece and have been persuaded that an author newsletter is a great way to connect with readers. Or maybe your agent or editor or publicist are prodding you to be more visible and build a platform to help sell your book. Or maybe you’ve just noticed that lots of writers seem to have a newsletter and you’re starting to wonder if you should have one, too.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
writersdigest.com | Nancy Reddy
To be a writer, all you really have to do is write. But if you want to grow your audience, connect with readers, and sell more books, the best tool available right now is a newsletter. (Should Writers Use Social Media?)When I started writing my newsletter, in March 2021, I had a pretty straightforward idea: I’d share a poetry prompt each day for April, and anyone who wanted to join us could write along.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
nancyreddy.substack.com | Leigh Kamping-Carder |Nancy Reddy
Today I’m excited to share another entry in the new tending section, which is a mix of essays and interviews about creative practice that do a deeper dive into a particular craft element or process question. Today’s newsletter features writer Leigh Kamping-Carder, who writes the beautiful newsletter The Heart Dialogues, which focuses on writing and community for people with congenital heart disease (and the people who care about them).
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
poetrybulletin.substack.com | Emily Stoddard |Nancy Reddy
This is a bonus resource of the Poetry Bulletin, with special thanks to paid readers who support the extra time and energy needed to create posts like this.I wasn’t sure what to call this kind of post… it’s meant to be a generous kickstart and hopefully not too dense. I’d like to do more posts like this, so I wanted a name to capture that spirit.
