💬 Let's Celebrate your WONDERFUL Year on Substack!
+ win a Substack audit with me! 💫
Just a heads up - my December newsletters will look a little different. There’ll be opportunities to engage, some top tips, round ups and some adverts and shares from my community - I hope you’ll support them.✨
First up - a shout out to illustrator, digital alchemist and speaker Georgina Dean who writes Creatively Wondering and is supporting our Substack Bestseller’s Holiday brunch next week with some live illustrations. If you’re a bestseller, there’s still time to sign up for free here. Keris Fox and I would love to see you!
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Hi Sparklers,
Wow what a year it’s been here on Substack! We’ve seen some brilliant voices arrive, we’ve showed up to our publications. We’ve deepened kinship and met wonderful new colleagues for coffee, lunch and Substack Lives! We’ve increased and decreased our prices, our publishing cadence, our words, scratched our heads on growth and engagement and we’ve made it ALL work as creators and writers on our terms. YAY!
I was so happy to raise a glass at the Substack Bestseller’s Festive Drinks on Tuesday! It was wonderful to meet Beth Kempton, George ~ FWN, Anna Wharton and re-connect with Kate Harvey, Selina Barker and Emma Gannon too.
I have to make conscious space to celebrate - we should do it more! We always have so much to toast! 🥂
💬 Before things get too busy, I wanted to invite you to share (in the comments below) what you are celebrating about your Substack this year?
What do you feel MOST proud of?
Perhaps you found clarity on your voice or a new section. Perhaps you showed up live for the first time. Perhaps you had a note do really well or a post go viral?
If you’d to enter my Christmas competition to win a Substack Audit worth £250 you can click ‘also share to Notes’ when you leave a comment AND circle back to cheerlead someone else in the comments too? We rise together! ✨
Remember, just showing up is worth celebrating - we have time to create quietly and live inside the vision for our Substack and beyond. I’m cheering you on always!
Claire
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What I am really truly celebrating is the same as the intention I set in January - depth of connection - I've met the most wonderful, thoughtful, creative people through Substack. I love it here. 💖
Here is some of the stuff I am celebrating at the end of 2025 on Substack: I am celebrating over 500 subscribers on my 1st publication and over 200 subscribers on the 2nd one. I am also super proud of the Live I did here in September and the response I got to it- it gave me the confidence to plan another one for December 15th with Rebecca Blackwell.
And finally, I've met some amazing people through Substack, and with some of them I've had wonderful in person and/or over the Zoom conversation. What a wonderful place to be!