Nobody Reads Horror on a Tuesday

Episode summaryJohn gets honest about the specific frustration of writing dark fiction on a platform built for newsletters about morning routines and market trends. Substack rewards frequency and broad appeal. Disturbing fiction requires neither and delivers both badly. This episode is about what happens when you stop trying to solve that problem and start writing for the readers who were always going to find you anyway.What’s coveredWhy Substack’s discovery tools work against genre fiction writers. The tension between the platform’s appetite for volume and the patience good fiction actually requires. Why nobody subscribes to a Substack for the stories, and what they’re actually following instead. How “Mile Marker 47” found its readers not through promotion but through specificity. Why being precise enough to lose the wrong readers is the only strategy that holds up.Referenced in this episode“Mile Marker 47” and “Processing Delay” are both available on The Proud Boomer Substack. Paid subscribers get the full archive and one exclusive piece per month.Subscribe / FollowSubstack: Medium: https://medium.com/@theProudBoomer Email: [email protected] subscriptions: $5/month or $50/year. No sponsors. No algorithm. Get full access to The Proud Boomer Dispatch at johnsproudboomer.substack.com/subscribe