🔒 Why Go Paid?
Exclusive fiction, sharp strategy, and a front-row seat to the writing business experiment.
Brilliance & Bastardry is a place where I share fiction, satire, and strategy—alongside the live breakdown of how I’m building a writing business worth £1.5 million (after tax).
If you're ready to go deeper, support the work, and unlock the best of it, this is for you.
✅ Here’s what paid members get:
1. Transparent Access to the £1.5M Project
Real-time updates on what I’m building, launching, earning, and what’s failing miserably. I’ll share product breakdowns, launch copy, templates, and monthly income reports as the chaos unfolds.
2. Exclusive Fiction + Essays
Fiction drops, experimental pieces, extended excerpts, and creative process notes you won’t find anywhere else. Think of it as the weird, personal director’s cut of my writing life.
3. Tools & Templates for Writers Who Want to Earn
I’ll give you the behind-the-scenes structure: content ideas, digital product templates, writing comp strategies, and what’s actually working to build a multi-offer, multi-persona creative business.
🧠Coming soon for paid members:
Full access to the Substack for Writers Who Don’t Want to Be Coaches bootcamp
Launch audits, swipe copy, and creative growth strategy
Priority access to future products, cohorts, and 1:1 offers
This tier helps me keep the writing sharp, the strategy honest, and the fiction coming.
If you believe in building strange, smart, story-led businesses—this is your seat at the table.
Thank you for supporting the work. It means the world.
— H.J. Smith-Williams