Monica Leonelle

Gentle reminder that Elon Musk sees you as an NPC and the only Us vs. Them he actually cares about is the one that makes him a trillionaire and gets him to Mars.

My goals are simply more interesting to me than their warped reality these days—and that's something I couldn't have said even five years ago.

As for why, someone once told me that you can immediately throw away any mail that doesn't have a first class stamp because it's junk mail or advertisements. If someone's lie to themselves wasn't sent with a first class stamp, it's their agenda, not yours, and not worth opening.

5. Not responding to so many dumb things. Did you know that my ex-boss from 20 years ago wrote a scathing post about how they fired me (not even true) and I am a hot mess in their eyes? No, you didn't, because I didn't give enough of AF to talk about it or respond to it.

4. Energetically committing to a new and huge goal. Letting almost everything else fall to noise. I finished two big cycles in indie publishing and building my family. I still love helping authors and I love my family (obviously!), but I need a new challenge. It's time to go after this thing now.

3. Enrolled my second child in preschool a year early. This was a last minute thing decided a few weeks ago. I realized that I was getting 20ish hours a week but it was basically equally one *good* day of work. I was ready, they were ready in a way I didn't see with my first child.

2. I doubled my coaching/consulting rates. Starting October 1st my new rate is $500/hour. Pricing shifts come from energy shifts. I will likely work with more authors who have really specific problems and the leverage to take big action, as well as working with more coaches/nonfiction people.

1. Systemizing my whole nonfiction business...But also making myself more accessible to people who want to go deeper with weekly calls. I'm scaling the asynchronous side of my business, going deeper with my Substack community, and doubling down on what I do better than anyone.

Some "crazy" decisions that I've made lately that have surprised me (and why):

Tiers that have paperbacks are unfortunately only going up, not down across all of crowdfunding/direct sales, due to the chaos of supply chains and shipping. I will attempt to offer fair and affordable pricing, as well as work with overseas printers to ship affordably to international people!

A few people have asked about pricing, and all I can say is that the pricing is generous/affordable on the digital side.

Passion + Profit with Author Ecosystems: Write What You Want and Find Your Perfect Promotion Style

Six-Figure Storyteller with Author Ecosystems: Create Sustainably, Expand Your Brand, and Prosper as a Creator

The books are:

Getting to Six Figures Sustainably: Frameworks to Transform Your Writing Business (formerly $8333)

I'm hoping/planning to launch on September 9, plus or minus a few days, as there are some factors around that still. But I know for sure for sure that I will be ending the campaign on 10/18 and will ship physical books in early to mid November.

Get Ready for Six-Figures + Author Ecosystems From Lovelight Lioness Productions, LLC - Get Ready for Six-Figures + Author Ecosystems

We are launching together over on BackerKit three new(ish) books that come out of new content + re-issues from previously co-written books.

You can read more here and sign up to support the campaign here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Get Ready for Six-Figures + Author Ecosystems From Lovelight Lioness Productions, LLC - Get Ready for Six-Figures + Author Ecosystems

Reminder: This project for Getting to Six Figures Sustainably and two Author Ecosystems books is launching next week! I can't wait!

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

I would love for someone to stop trying to convince me that fascism is here. Like I'm sold. Tell me something to do about it that's not stupid and pointless.

It is really telling that billionaires have enough to buy anything they want and the thing they want is fascism.

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Hit us up @hallmarkchannel.bsky.social @netflix.com 🙏

Of course Biden pardoned his son. He has lost a wife and baby in a car accident and then lost his other adult son during a potential election run. Please let this man pardon his troubled child in peace.

This is not the worst idea

Love this! I'm doing a nonfiction advent calendar on my Substack.

(Looks at feed)

So THAT'S the word "pardon" getting a one-week muting

Lately, both of my children physically fight each other to be near me every morning. This is the most popular I may ever be!

Entitlement must be confusing to so many out there 🫡

And the truth is, men don't usually join their partner's creative business until they are making serious bank (7+ figures). But women often work for their husbands for free. That's a generalization, of course!

The only sad part about this one is it reveals so little about me, because I pretty much have given a talk or lecture on all of these publicly 🤷🏻‍♀️

5 Topics you could talk about for 30min straight:

1. Publishing (and several subtopics for that length straight)

2. Woo and non-woo healing tools (same)

3. LEGOs

4. Taylor Swift

5. Several major fantasy franchises (HP, Star Wars, LotR, Hunger Games, GoT, etc.)

What was the tip?