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In addition to writing books and producing journalism, I’m a creative consultant. As The Fixer, I do a little bit of everything that has to do with words. From ghostwriting books to editing manuscripts to crafting website content, I help my clients with their word-based projects. Are you a busy CEO who needs a ghostwriter? I can do that. Are you a writer who needs someone to assist you in getting your writing where it should be? I can do that. Are you a marketing company in search of someone who can create compelling copy? I can do that. Book a one-hour introductory consultation here or email me to schedule your session here, and let’s get started.
SERVICES
Ghostwriting
Website content
Editing
Speechwriting
Journalism
Marketing and branding copy
Press releases
Copywriting
Feature writing
Social media content
Blog posts
Newsletters
CLIENTS
WarnerMedia
Playboy Enterprises
FX Networks
Procter & Gamble
“Conan” on TBS
Publicis Groupe
Weber Shandwick
REVIEWS
"Susannah is utterly brilliant. She's a highly experienced strategic thinker who brings bold new ideas and perspectives to the table, from brand positioning and messaging to ambitious content initiatives. I look forward to working with her again." — executive producer / GM
"There are few people I have come across in my 30 years of working with leaders all over the world with the level of intelligence and work ethic as Susannah. I am very picky who I choose to collaborate with; Susannah is exceptional." — change management consultant
"Susannah is brilliant at cutting through the noise and locating what's needed with a laser focus. Her ability to help people see themselves more clearly, identify weaknesses and gaps, and provide a productive critique to course correct is extraordinary." — chief operating officer
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Now that my memoir is out in the world, I’m consulting again. What do I do as The Fixer? Well, it’s a little bit of everything. Strategy consulting is one way of putting it. Consigliere is a bit more accurate. As a consultant, my work ranges from crisis communications to M&A to executive coaching to PR. Book your (deeply discounted) introductory session with me today here. If you’ve got a problem, I can probably fix it.
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Recently, I did some revamping of my Gumroad store and added a new product. On Gumroad, you can book a strategic communications consulting session with me through my consultancy: The Fixer; order a signed hardcover copy of my new memoir, DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment; or buy my digital short story, “The Tumor.” If there’s something else you’d like to see added to the store, let me know.
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I’ve been writing for the Forbes website for forever, it seems. Over the years, I have held several beats: self-employment, vices, and sex. Currently, my tagline is: “I cover the business of sex.” In January 2023, I started posting again after a hiatus, and I thought I would track my traffic numbers progress here.
Stories published: 4. My goal was to publish five stories, but various things led that to not happening. Next time, I will get more of the posts done earlier in the month.
Total page views: 42,956. My goal was to double my page views from December 2022, when I wasn’t posting. My page views in December 2022 were 22,353. That’s an increase of 91%. So, not bad.
Total visitors: 39,011. My goal was to double my page views from December 2022, when I wasn’t posting. My page views in December 2022 were 20,155. That’s an increase of 93%. So, not bad.
Most popular post, by views: How Rapper Iggy Azalea Is Making Money on Only Fans: 19,381 (as of this writing). If the question is what works, the answer is the intersection of celebrities and sex. Other reasons this post performed well: It was tweeted multiple times by Forbes and ForbesLife, the top image featured Iggy preparing to lick a cherry, I had read something recently that reminded me that headlines that explain “how” something is done are more likely to generate higher engagement and so I used that construct.
The month’s highlight: Iggy is #1: At one point, my story about Iggy was the number one trending story on Forbes.com, beating out stories about Tom Brady and Elon Musk.
In the latest installment of my newsletter — subscribe here — I wrote about a bad date and why it’s hard for me to explain what I do as a consultant to men who are not the type of men who are my consulting clients.
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New year, new things.
I have some openings in my work as a creative consultant. Book me now while the slots are available. Purchase a one-hour phone call or Zoom meeting with me on Gumroad or email me (susannahbreslin at gmail dot com) to set up a session.
I fix words. From book manuscripts to personal essays, movie scripts to television series treatments, content strategy to social media copy, I'm an expert when it comes to making your words better. My clients include Academy Award-winning directors, New York Times best-selling authors, and some of the world's biggest brands.
Whether you want to improve your writing or develop a new content strategy for your company, I can help. Get started by booking a one-hour phone call or Zoom meeting with me today! After you pay, I'll reach out to you by email to set up a session.
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I’m writing a book. It’s a memoir. It’s called Data Baby. It’ll be published by Hachette Books. Thanks to everyone who helped make this book happen.
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Best career advice that I can give: Don't ever attach yourself to a person, a place, a company, an organization or a project. Attach yourself to a mission, a calling, a purpose ONLY. That's how you keep your power & your peace. It's worked pretty well for me thus far.
— erica williams simon (@missewill) June 6, 2018
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THREAD: Hire me! I’m looking for full-time, part-time, or consulting work. An employer once described me as a “Swiss Army knife.” I do a lot of things! Here are a few ways that I can add value. *Please RT!* (1/7) pic.twitter.com/UpcIdqPPEO
— Susannah Breslin (@susannahbreslin) August 31, 2020
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My latest newsletter is out. Subscribe here. In this week’s edition, I ponder my life choices, consider the dominatrix, and contemplate the role of the sex doll during a global pandemic.
An excerpt:
“ […] but that all sounded so boring, and then I thought it would be more interesting to write about a guy who makes sex dolls and says they’re ‘a perfect COVID-19 companion’ because they ‘can be enjoyed without another individual in the room — and yet it feels as if there is.’ […]”
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Yesterday, I posted a link to my Twitter feed, where I’d posted a GIF-heavy “Hire Me!” thread in which I outlined the different types of work that I do. After that, I created a series of Stories on my Instagram feed featuring the top 10 reasons why you should hire me. You can see them in my Stories for 24 hours, and after that they’re archived in the Highlight folder entitled “Hire Me!” at the top of my profile.
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THREAD: Hire me! I’m looking for full-time, part-time, or consulting work. An employer once described me as a “Swiss Army knife.” I do a lot of things! Here are a few ways that I can add value. *Please RT!* (1/7) pic.twitter.com/UpcIdqPPEO
— Susannah Breslin (@susannahbreslin) August 31, 2020
I wrote a Twitter thread about ways in which you can hire me. Retweet it here.
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In April, I launched my first newsletter. (Read it here. Subscribe here.) Since it’s been a few months, and I've been enjoying the process, I thought I’d share what I’ve learned about newslettering thus far.
It’s fun
Like blogging in the early days, when the medium hadn’t been co-opted by corporations, blogging felt like a radical act. Newsletters feel that way now. In this space, there aren’t a ton of supposed-to’s, and the energy is a bit more wild, wild west. That’s inspiring and refreshing.
It’s easy
I use Substack as a platform for my newsletter, and it really couldn’t be easier. If you’re thinking about doing a newsletter, I recommend Substack. It’s easy to post, it’s easy to see your stats, and it’s easy to deliver to your audience. Also, it’s not in a silo. Depending on how your settings are set, your newsletter can also appear online for non-subscribers to read, in addition to arriving in your subscribers’ email in-boxes.
It’s pivotable
If you decide you want to change how you’re newslettering, you can do so relatively easily. At first, my Substack domain had my name in it, which wasn’t a very good idea, because my name is too hard to spell. Then I changed it to Valleywood, which is a compound word that combines the San Fernando Valley, where I live, and Hollywood, which is the predominant LA culture. Maybe I should’ve named it The Reverse Cowgirl, or maybe that would have sent it into people’s spam folders. Who knows. Also, initially, I was writing them more like essays. Then I started writing them like listicles. I like the latter format better.
It’s slow to grow
At least for me, my newsletter audience has been pretty slow to grow. I’m approaching 200 non-paying subscribers. My click-through rate, which is how many people open the newsletter to read it, is pretty high: around 64%. Judging by the feedback I’ve gotten, on social media and in emails, people are enjoying it. Here’s one review: “One of the most intelligent and entertaining newsletter you will ever read!”
It’s cheap
There’s no overhead to do my newsletter, except for the time that I put into it. I don’t think I have the reach yet to go paid. But one day, I may. Or perhaps it will always be free. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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Currently, I’m interviewing for three different roles at three different companies. These are all roles that I applied to on LinkedIn, a platform I’ve previously bashed as being worthless. (Guess I was wrong.) All the roles are at tech companies. All the roles have six-figure salaries. For two of the roles, I’m on the second round of interviews. The roles involve content, strategy, branding, editorial, and / or marketing. It’s unclear what the outcome will be, but I’ll update here.
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A month or so ago, I stopped writing to-do lists and started writing successes lists. Instead of writing a list of what I was supposed to do, I started doing the things that I knew I needed to do, and then, as I completed them throughout the day, I wrote a successes list. Everything and anything that was positive and or productive went on the successes list, from doing Pilates to finishing a draft to creating a blog post. I found this to be a helpful trick that converted the day’s “musts” into the day’s “mission accomplisheds.”
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Check out my new newsletter: TheFixer. The latest installment is live: “The Shotgun Effect.” Subscribe here.
Here’s an excerpt:
I sent my resume to men and women. Quickly, I noticed there were two types of responses. Women tended to offer emotional support. Men tended to offer strategic support. Every single potential lead I got was from a man. None was from a woman.
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My latest newsletter is “How to Fix Your Life.” An excerpt:
As I expected, men were more likely to respond to my email than women, and men were more likely to respond with an actionable response, while women were more likely to respond with an emotional response. If only emotions paid the bills! Ha-ha. I’d be a billionaire, bitches.
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As someone whose worked remotely for most of the last two decades, I was fascinated by this New York Times Magazine article on the future of remote work: “What If Working From Home Goes on … Forever?”
Here’s an excerpt:
“There may also be innovations that let us use video but avoid the fatigue of decoding one another’s faces. One example is Loom.ai, a new chat app that lets you use a regular videoconferencing app — Zoom, Microsoft Teams — except you appear as an avatar. Stylistically, the avatars have the approachable, cartoony style of Apple’s ‘memoji,’ except here they have a torso and arms. Users can customize their onscreen cartoon to resemble themselves if they want.”
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Two or three times a week, I get an email from someone somewhere in the world who wants to be a male porn star. I don’t respond. My advice? Pick another profession. The woodsman’s job isn’t an easy one. He must get it up and get it off on command while a semicircle of bored male crew members and the camera watch him. God forbid he should have “wood problems,” as it’s known in the business—he might never work again. On top of the pressure, the pay isn’t that great. In this line of work, his female costar is likely making more than he is.
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