Substacks recommended by Carolyn McBride 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

Recommended by Carolyn McBride 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

Serialized fiction and short stories from a steampunk universe

Join me as I share worldbuilding wit and wisdom with a lighthearted view of my successes and setbacks. Creative thinking is a skill you can learn through practice and improve with exercise.

Worlds of Kummer Wolfe

By CB "Kummer Wolfe" Ash

Hi! I’m CB “Kummer Wolfe” Ash. Here on “Worlds of Kummer Wolfe”, I write fantasy adventure and alternate history fiction, both with a dash of science fantasy thrown in for fun! Interested in my books? Head on over to The Book Vault on the newsletter!

Kummer offers an escape with their imaginative and immersive worlds & stories. Perfect for when you want to get away, but stay in your PJ's!

- Carolyn McBride 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

Change The World With Words

By Karen Banes

Your writing can change the world. Find your voice, write with impact, and build a body of work you’re proud of.

It's informative, it's chill and I enjoy the overall vibe. You will too!

- Carolyn McBride 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

Irish Mythology Stories

A substack all about Irish Mythology

Norse Mythology & Germanic Lore

By J.G. Harker

A source-driven approach to examining Norse mythology and more broadly ancient Germanic religion and culture

THE FICTION DEALER

By The Fiction Dealer

Psst... wanna read a story?

Talebones ✨

By S.E. Reid

Home of the Ferris Island Tales! Short and serialized fiction from S.E. Reid: speculative stories with a spiritual, supernatural, or uncanny twist.

Rediscovered Realms

By J.Q. Graziano

The weekly (3,000+ subscriber) Fantasy newsletter that reconnects you with heroic fantasy worlds of your favorite books, epic games, unearthed magazines, forgotten gamebooks, movies and enchanting art - old school & new. 👑

Always enjoyable fantasy content for readers, gamers and even the casual fantasy fan. DO NOT MISS

- Carolyn McBride 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

Magic & Ink

By Stace Dumoski

a fantasy writer's resource and community of inspiration

You need to read this for the inspiration, for the beauty and the knowledge. You'll feel better for reading it. Trust me.

- Carolyn McBride 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

Writing from Ithilien

By Robin

Tolkien scholarship (conferences, publishing, research, & esp. bibliographies!). ETA: after my June 7 post, I need to warn about an addiction to discursive footnotes and blending academic analysis with reader response (my own!).

Insights and new ways of looking at Professor Tolkien's works.

- Carolyn McBride 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦