Lilli Sutton - author of RUNNING OUT OF AIR

Another revision in the books 📚 excited to share more about this one soon!

And 6 new releases on my TBR for 2025 ❤️

My favorite reads of 2024! 📚 Of the 62 books I read, these stuck with me the most.

Home for the holidays ❤️🕎🎄

Sisters are like friends you don’t get to choose. https://buff.ly/4gyVVgO

How the Right and the MAHA Movement Have Co-opted ‘Crunchy’ Once, eating whole foods and avoiding toxins was associated with a lefty worldview. Now, being a “crunchy mom” is more often about “health freedom.”

As someone who grew up in a leftist “crunchy” household I find the rightward movement of this trend so fascinating (and frightening)

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My last newsletter of the year is out! Read it and subscribe for free here: open.substack.com/pub/lillisut...

Lilli Sutton | Substack Author of contemporary upmarket fiction. Represented by Jessica Faust at Bookends Literary Agency. RUNNING OUT OF AIR (MIRA/HarperCollins, 11.19.2024).

My final newsletter of the year goes out tomorrow and includes:

-a book launch recap
-lessons learned from my debut novel
-my favorite reads of 2024

Subscribe for free here: substack.com/@lillisutton...

Books that capture the intriguing line between family obligation and built-in friendship that sisterhood toes. (@lillisutton.bsky.social)

I wrote about nine novels featuring complicated sister relationships for Electric Literature! Read it here:

electricliterature.com/9-novels-tha...

Last: Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch
Current: Hidden Rooms by Kate Michaelson
Next: probably… Middletide by Sara Crouch

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I answered some questions about RUNNING OUT OF AIR and my writing process—read it here! writerinterviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/lill...

Okay but where is Spotify wrapped…

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Thanksgiving Eve is my Christmas Eve. I won’t be able to sleep because I’m so excited to eat pecan pie tomorrow.

Writing pitches is so hard like what do you MEAN I can’t write 70k words exploring these characters in depth first??

Howdy! I’m reviving my Bluesky account 👋🏻

If we haven’t met, I’m Lilli! My debut novel RUNNING OUT OF AIR, about two mountaineering sisters, came out last week. When I’m not writing I’m usually reading, hanging out in nature, or cooking something. I’ll be sharing book updates & other stuff here!

A friend asked if I can picture what my book’s cover might look like and… no. I cannot. But I’ll know it when I see it.

True Planster. I can’t write without my outline but I never follow it all the way through.