Desk of Amy Suto
Meet Amy Suto, bestselling author and San Francisco content creator. Check out her writing blog, explore her city guides, or browse her writing portfolio.
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PRESS KIT
I’m Amy Suto — bestselling author, San Francisco content creator, and the writer behind two Substack publications: Make Writing Your Job (a Top 20 Business bestseller with 44,000+ subscribers and $267,000 in gross annualized revenue, grown with zero paid ads) and Sutoscience, where I serialize fiction and write about building a creative life. Former Hollywood TV writer, USC alum, based in San Francisco.
This page is for journalists, podcasters, newsletter sponsors, brand partners, and publishers — everything you need is below, and the form at the bottom lands straight in my inbox.
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Fast facts
44K+Newsletter subscribers
Across Make Writing Your Job — 1,900+ of them paid, built over three years.
$267KAnnualized revenue
Gross newsletter revenue — the dashboard is public below. Receipts beat vibes.
Top 20Business Substack
Make Writing Your Job sits on Substack’s Business bestseller leaderboard.
$0Spent on ads
Every subscriber arrived organically — no paid acquisition, ever.
26M+Google Search impressions
On amysuto.com over the last 12 months, with 100K+ clicks to show for it.
4 Books + a SerialAnd counting
Write for Money and Power, Six-Figure Freelance Writer, The Ash Trials, The Nomad Detective — plus Let Me Be Your Ghost, serialized on Sutoscience.
The audience
My readers are primarily women (with a healthy contingent of men) — professionals, creatives, and full-time creatives who are often running their own businesses: freelancers, authors, newsletter writers, coaches, and founders building careers on their own terms. They read Make Writing Your Job for high-paying writing jobs, live classes, and career strategy. They read Sutoscience for essays and serialized fiction, and the amysuto.com blog for freelancing guides, travel writing, and reviews.
Social reach
As featured in
- NPR — Interviewed about Hollywood workers building careers beyond the industry
- BookLife by Publishers Weekly — Contributor — “The New Writing Economy”
- WePresent by WeTransfer — “Stuff They Don’t Tell You: How to Price Your Work”
- Authority Magazine — Interview on making money writing books
- Emma Gannon’s The Hyphen — Creative Coffee interview on self-publishing beyond gatekeepers
- The Bleeders (Courtney Kocak) — Podcast — “Make Art, Make Money”
- Newsletter Circle — From Hollywood TV writer to Substack founder
- The Writing Coach Podcast — Guest episode on the writing business
- The Terry Knight Show — Substack, ghostwriting & the six-figure writing path
- Freelance to Founder — Four-episode guest arc
More interviews, podcast episodes, and features live on my press page.
Ghostwriting clients
Through my company Sutoscience LLC, I’ve ghostwritten and edited memoirs for Olympians, NBA players, Silicon Valley founders, TED speakers, entertainment insiders, and bestselling authors. The whole point of a great ghostwriter is that I can’t tell you who — ironclad NDAs are part of the service — but clients have flown me to Vienna, Canada, and beyond to write their stories. Here’s how that work happens.
Recent photos
Higher-resolution versions of any photo are available on request through the form below.
Sponsorships & brand partnerships
I run influencer partnerships and sponsorships across both Substacks (Make Writing Your Job and Sutoscience), this blog, and my social channels — newsletter ads, sponsored classes, affiliate collaborations, and long-form brand storytelling. If your product serves writers, freelancers, creators, or curious professionals, my audience is your audience — and I only promote things I’d genuinely use.
Case in point: my sponsored feature for ProWritingAid — “The editing toolkit I wish I’d had for my first book” — went straight to 44,000+ Make Writing Your Job inboxes.
For the search engines and media-list builders: newsletter sponsorship, Substack advertising, writer influencer partnerships, creator economy commentary, freelance writing expert, memoir ghostwriting, book publicity, author interviews, ARC reviews, San Francisco content creator, San Francisco lifestyle creator, San Francisco influencer, Bay Area creator dinners and events, San Francisco food critic, PR kits and product seeding, lifestyle product reviews.
San Francisco: events, tastings, PR kits & creator collabs
I live in San Francisco, and I cover my city like a beat — 41 SF restaurant reviews with the receipts to prove I paid, a matcha ranking I take embarrassingly seriously, a bagel hierarchy, and guides to living and working in the city. If you’re planning a creator dinner, tasting, opening, or launch event in the Bay Area, or you want a San Francisco content creator to put your product through its paces, I want to hear about it.
And yes — PR kits are welcome. I’m a San Francisco lifestyle creator as much as a food critic, and I take products for review consideration on this site and on TikTok: food and drink, kitchen, wellness, home, and travel gear all fit the beat. Same rule as everything else here — I only review what I’d genuinely use, and hosted or gifted always gets disclosed.
The reviews, the guides, and a form built for exactly this kind of invitation all live on my San Francisco hub. One useful fact for your pitch: I don’t drink, so your mocktail program is safe with me. And if your team needs the numbers in a forwardable format, download the media kit (PDF).
Speaking
I give talks on creativity, AI for creatives, paid newsletters, and the death of the starving artist myth — my most recent lecture with Big Brain, the Bay Area’s paid speaker series, sold out, and my bookstore writing classes run waitlists. Topics, formats, and the booking form live on my speaking page.
ARCs & book review submissions
I accept ARCs and advance reader copies for review consideration on amysuto.com — my book reviews rank on Google for titles like Quicksilver and ACOTAR — and for potential author interviews on Make Writing Your Job or Sutoscience. Sweet spots: romantasy and romance, memoir, and nonfiction for writers and creatives. Send details through the form below with a synopsis, pub date, and format. I read everything, and I only review books I can be honest about.
How to work with me
Press, podcasts & speaking
Interviews, expert commentary, and speaking engagements — on the creator economy, Substack, freelancing, ghostwriting, and the anti-starving-artist beat from Write for Money and Power.
Sponsors & brands
Newsletter placements, partnerships, and collaborations across two Substacks, this blog, and social — scoped to your goals on a quick call.
Publishers & publicists
ARCs for review consideration and author interviews — romantasy, memoir, and books for writers first.