✍️ Make Writing Your Job Podcast

Hey writers,

We have something exciting to share — and it was built with you in mind.

We’d love for you to watch the short video above to see it in action. 🎬

✨ Introducing CozyJobs + CozyApply

You already know we curate some of the best writing jobs out there through ✍️ Make Writing Your Job — but here’s the thing: our team finds so many incredible opportunities that just don’t fit the writing job board.

Content creator roles. Hybrid positions. Writing-adjacent gigs. In-person opportunities. Creative jobs that are almost writing jobs but not quite — and honestly? Too good to ignore.

That’s what 🛋️ CozyJobs is for.

🛋️ CozyJobs is the overflow of all the amazing things our team curates that we just can’t fit on the MWYJ board — still highly vetted, still handpicked, just… more.

📌 CozyApply — Your Job Application Shortcut

When you subscribe to 🛋️ CozyJobs, you also get 📌 CozyApply — our browser extension that lets you save jobs directly from ✍️ Make Writing Your Job job pages into your personal application queue.

One click. Jobs saved. Applications streamlined. 🙌

Our whole goal is simple: help you apply for more jobs, faster — without the overwhelm.

💛 A Special Deal, Just for You

As a ✍️ Make Writing Your Job member, you can try CozyJobs Starter for just:

🎉 $0.99 for your first week

Use code 7DAYCOZY at checkout.

After your trial week, you can upgrade to keep your Starter plan and keep access to everything — the job database, the CozyApply extension, and all the curated opportunities we’re adding hourly.

👉 Watch the Demo + Get Started

Have questions? Need help getting set up? Just hit reply — we want to make sure you get the most out of this. 💌

We’re so excited to share this with you. Let’s get you applying. 🚀

-Amy, Kyle, & the 🛋️ CozyJobs Team

🎉 Introducing CozyApply — the browser extension built for writers, creatives & professionals who are tired of applications eating their life.

Applying is basically a part-time job. Tracking what you’ve sent, writing the same cover letter for the 50th time, remembering if you’ve pitched that outlet before, keeping up with grants and residencies and open calls — it adds up fast.

We built 📌 CozyApply to fix that.

📌 Save to your queue — Spot a job, grant, or residency you love? Pin it straight from the ✍️ Make Writing Your Job job board and save it to your tracker so nothing slips through the cracks.

⚡ Auto-fill applications — Upload your portfolio info once. 📌 CozyApply uses it to fill out applications across job listings, freelance jobs, grants, contests, pitch calls, and residencies.

✉️ Cover letters in seconds — CozyApply generates a tailored cover letter based on your materials and the listing — and you can regenerate it until it’s right.

✍️ Essay answers, handled — Those long application essay prompts? Auto-filled and ready to review.

📊 Track everything — Know exactly what you’ve applied to, when, and where things stand.

What used to take 10 minutes now takes 10 seconds. That means more applications, more opportunities, and more time for the creative work that actually lights you up.

This is what technology should do — take the boring stuff off your plate so you can do more of what you love.

🌟 Founding Member Beta Access

We’re opening beta access to our Make Writing Your Job founding members first — and we want to grow 📌 CozyApply with you. Founding Members get 1 year at our Power Tier (the highest tier) for $0.99 (normally $1,990/year).

Upgrade to Founding Member now to see below the paywall → access 📌 CozyApply → start applying smarter → and help us shape what this tool becomes.

(Plus, you get all of the other benefits of being a Founding Member, such as 24 early access to Featured Jobs and our quarterly Zoom mastermind group!)

👇 Founding Members, below the paywall is the info you need to get started with CozyApply:

Wow, what a masterclass — Sarah Fay, PhD was generous enough to join me on Substack Live to talk about the strategies and tips she teaches on her excellent publication, Substack Writers at Work.

In our conversation, Sarah shared…

* The common mistakes even expert writers make on Substack

* Her signature framework for how to approach building a sustainable publication on Substack

* The key things writers need to focus on if they want to make a living from their words here on Substack

I know over 1,000+ of you who tuned in live shared the same sentiments I did — this was such an incredible conversation, and was bursting at the seams with thoughtful tips and strategies.

If you found this valuable, then you should know that Sarah is teaching an upcoming course — The Craft of Writing on Substack, which you can sign up for now:

Want to tune into more Substack Live replays? You can browse our free archive here at ✍️ Make Writing Your Job.

Happy writing!

-Amy

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Founding Members of ✍️ Make Writing Your Job — this one’s for you.

We’re about to roll out early access to something we’ve been quietly building behind the scenes.

Our co-founder Kyle Cords has created 🛋️ CozyApply, a browser extension designed to help writers apply to writing jobs and opportunities dramatically faster — with less friction, less copy-pasting, and way less mental overhead.

🛋️ CozyApply is built to work hand-in-hand with our writing job board. The goal is simple: save you time, streamline your applications, and help you land more paid writing work.

Because applying shouldn’t be the hardest part of making writing your job.

❗️Founding Members get early access to CozyApply as soon as it’s ready to use.

✍️ What’s Included in the Founding Membership Tier at Make Writing Your Job

The Founding Membership is for writers who want more than access — they want leverage.

You’ll get everything in the Core Paid Membership, plus the advantages that compound over time:

⚡ Early Access to CozyApply

Founding Members are first in line to try 🛋️ CozyApply, our new browser extension built to help writers apply to jobs faster, with less friction and less burnout. This tool is designed to work seamlessly with the ✍️ Make Writing Your Job board — so you can move quicker when great opportunities drop.

⚡ 24-Hour Head Start on Featured Jobs

Our most competitive, client-submitted roles often disappear fast. Founding Members see them first — before the wider community.

🧠 Quarterly Mastermind Calls with Amy Suto & Fellow Working Writers

Strategy, accountability, and real conversations with other serious working writers. These calls are about momentum, not motivation.

🤝 Sponsor a Writer in Need

Your membership helps fund scholarships through our Write It Forward initiative — expanding access while strengthening the community you’re part of.

🎁 First-Look Access to New Tools & Experiments

CozyApply is just the beginning. Founding Members are always first to test new tools, partnerships, and programs we’re building next.

📦 Everything in the Core Paid Membership

Founding Members get access to everything in our basic core membership: our curated writing job board (5x/week), The Pitch List (2x/week), Featured Jobs, weekly grants and residencies, ClassStack live classes and replays, Subscriber Chat, full archives, and tools designed to help you land better work faster.

⚠️ Temporary Founding Member Price Drop

For a limited time, we’re dropping the Founding Membership from $550/year to $500/year.

This gives more writers the chance to lock in our top-tier access — including early access to 🛋️ CozyApply — before pricing returns to its standard rate.

This isn’t about discounts for the sake of it.

It’s about giving committed writers the tools, timing, and edge to move faster — together.

👇 If you’re not on the Founding tier yet, you can upgrade now to join the CozyApply early access list waiting below the paywall:

Hey writer,

✍️ Join thousands of writers landing high-paying opportunities, creative leads, and building sustainable careers.

✨ New jobs posted 5x/week. Real writers are getting hired every day — don’t miss out.

Try it risk-free with a 7-day free trial:

💻 Our Core Paid Membership includes:

✍️ Curated Writing Job Board (5x/week): High-paying remote writing jobs across niches like memoir ghostwriting, copywriting, content writing, and more.

📣 The Pitch List (Weekly): Open calls and editor requests for essays, op-eds, reported features, and more.

⚡️ Grants, Contests & Residencies (Weekly): Every Wednesday, you’ll get a curated roundup of grants, contests, and dream residencies — including ones that cover your flights and set you up in a castle in the south of France to finish that novel without real-life distractions.

💼 Featured Jobs & Pitches: Premium roles from high-end clients who want to hire directly from our community.

💬 Subscriber Chat: A community that knows how to celebrate your wins.

📚 Archive Access + Resources: Every post, every tool, every digital bonus — yours to dig into whenever.

🎁 Surprise Gifts: Templates, scripts, systems, and the kind of extras that save you hours and earn you dollars.

This is a working writer’s toolkit. One good job can pay for your membership 10x over.

Looking forward to seeing you in the community!

-Amy, Kyle, & the Make Writing Your Job Team

🔍 How to Manage Your Subscription

Curious about how to upgrade, cancel, or make changes to your subscription?

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Thank you Allison Lau, Kyle Cords, Susan Ross, Christine Beck, Spencer Williams, and many others for tuning into my live video with Paul Millerd, author of The Pathless Path.

We cover a lot of different topics in this conversation, from Paul’s approach to the writing process, his perspective on traditional publishing, why he turned down a $200k book deal and how he made over $300k in royalties for his self-published book The Pathless Path, and what’s next for him in terms of life and writing.

As I mentioned in the video, The Pathless Path is a great book that will change the way you look at life and work. You can get it (and the new hardcover special edition!) below and subscribe to Paul Millerd here on Substack:

* Paul’s Substack: Pathless by Paul Millerd

* Buy The Pathless Path book, or get the special hardcover edition here

Paul’s articles we mentioned in our conversation:

* Reclaim the Book (about self-publishing)

* Authors Should Be Entrepreneurs (about paperbacks)

Join me for my next live video in the app:

✍️ Make Writing Your Job is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Thank you Paul Zakrzewski, Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Aisha Toussaint, Jo Ollila, and many others for tuning into my Substack live interview with Natasha Tynes!

We had a great time discussing what keeps most freelance writers trapped, the difference between a 6-figure and 7-figure freelance writing career, and how to best spend your time as a freelance writer.

🙌 Plus: my favorite $0 productivity tool that all freelance writers can start using today.

Join me for my next live video in the app:

p.s. yes, I did start drinking caffeine again after a 12-month hiatus and that’s why I’m talking a million miles a minute!!!

As part of my job as a freelance memoir ghostwriter, I was recently flown out to Vienna, Austria by my client as part of the book writing and researching process. Glamorous? You bet. It’s one of the reasons why I love my work, and why I also teach other writers how to kickstart their own freelancing careers

While I can’t discuss any of the work I did for my client, I can talk about the days I spent as a solo traveler exploring the city of Vienna and my recommendations for what to eat, where to stay, and what to do in Vienna, Austria for digital nomads, remote workers, and other travelers coming to visit this gem of a European city.

Imagine working remotely from an island where lush forests meet dramatic coastlines, where you can swim in natural saltwater pools during your lunch break, and where the produce is so fresh it might as well have been picked that morning.

Welcome to Madeira, a Portuguese island that's quickly becoming a digital nomad hotspot!

Kyle and I picked Madeira because we wanted to have a combination of both adventure and quiet deep work and creating time. During my time on the island, I met several other writers who had also picked Madeira for the “writing retreat” element inherent in its peaceful but stunning atmosphere.

I ended up leaving the island a week earlier than planned for a writing trip, but I’d still recommend you spend a month on the island so that you can really unwind and enjoy a surreal daily existence of ocean swims, foggy hikes, and endless waterfalls.

In this post you’ll learn…

✍️ The mindset shift that unlocked so much for me

📚 How limiting beliefs hold us back

✨ Plus: a free webinar on memoir ghostwriting this Monday!

✍️ Free Webinar on Monday About Memoir Ghostwriting [Mon, September 23rd at 3pm ET]

Marion Roach so kindly invited me as a guest on her “Let Me Introduce You” series to chat about all things memoir ghostwriting.

You can register at the link below — it’s free to join!

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

📖 3-Minute Story: The 1 Limiting Belief Holding You Back

In my early 20s, I thought that the world “owed” me something.

I thought that if I showed up in the way that society told me to, I’d be deserving of the outcome I was told I’d get.

They tell us to follow the formula:

Climb the ladder > get the promised prize > live happily ever after.

But because you’re reading this Substack that I’m typing to you beachside from Madeira, Portugal, you know that my journey was much better when I took my fate into my own hands.

Most writers — and people — are plagued by a victim mentality. Bad things happen to us, so we operate from a place of fear and scarcity. We fall into patterns thinking “this is just how things are” while stewing on how badly we’ve been treated or how deeply we’ve been wronged.

In 2021, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition. As someone who has struggled with fairly unfounded medical anxiety most of my life, this was my greatest fear.

But after my diagnosis, I felt fairly calm. Steady. I didn’t feel like a victim: I felt like I was being given a unique test. A challenge that would help me grow.

So, I faced it as that. Days later, I found a nutritionist to help me, I was doing my own research about the type of diet and lifestyle changes I needed to make, and I went against “common sense” and started traveling the world.

Three years later, I’m in remission — something I don’t think could have happened had I fallen into a “woe is me” victim mentality. There are a lot of factors that helped me heal, but they all were built on the foundation of this mindset shift: I am not a victim. I am responsible for my life and I can change it.

Radical responsibility gives us agency. If we take responsibility and “own” where we’re at in life, we’re suddenly in a position where we can change everything. From this new vantage point, depression and anxiety and anger fall away, and a path forward is illuminated.

In what ways in your own life have you fallen into the victim mentality?

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* Working Remotely in Spitalfields, London, England (Digital Nomad Travel Guide)

* Working Remotely in Edinburgh, UK (Digital Nomad Travel Guide)

* Working Remotely in Krakow, Poland (Digital Nomad Travel Guide)

📸 Photo of the Week: Dragon Tail Hike in Madeira, Portugal

The hiking in Madeira is unreal. Full travel guide coming soon for this gorgeous island :)

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Sending creativity and good writing vibes your way,

-Amy