A Year of MFA Lore for Half the Price!
Holiday gratitude just for you from Aimee Liu
Claim your MFA Lore Holiday Upgrade Special and receive— or give— all paid benefits for one year for 50% off. Offer available until December 15, 2025.
As a ghostwriter of Big-5 bestsellers, I work closely with top agents and editors, and one of the reasons I love this stack is the opportunity it gives me to share my latest on-the-job insights with you, alongside MFA-level craft advice.
Hello Loreates!
I want to tell you how grateful I am for your fellowship and support.
This publication launched four years ago on December 12 with this first trial post:
Since then, MFA Lore has evolved dramatically. From a personal testing ground for memoir segments about my Chinese-American legacy, it’s expanded into a weekly resource for writers and readers who want the essence of an MFA education without the exorbitant cost of tuition. By adding the Take-5 Packet offering, I’ve gained hands-on appreciation for the work of my premium subscribers. I’ve gotten to know my paid subscribers through comments and chats, and we’ve been building a close and vibrant community through our bimonthly Loreate Gatherings on Zoom.
In addition to Monday’s Metaphortography Writing Prompts and Wednesday’s Writer in the World essays, this year I launched an MFA Lore Live series called Well Published! Every few weeks I interview a veteran book publishing professional or author with a new release and a great publication story. After each Substack live interview, I post the video and written summary for your review. These interviews are brimming with insights and tips that you can only get from publishing insiders. Paid subscribers have full access to the whole archive of videos.
I try to make MFA Lore worthwhile for everyone, but I also believe that writers deserve to be paid for their expertise, effort, and quality of work. So I do reserve my most personal and, in my opinion, valuable content for paid subscribers.
Today, as a holiday/anniversary special, I’d like to offer you that content for 50% off the standard annual paid subscription price. This means you’ll have full access to paid posts and MFA Lore Archives, plus our community chats and Loreate zoom gatherings, all for just $2.50 a month! This button will take you to your upgrade:
The core of MFA Lore is a deep and deeply-informed passion for the craft of writing amid the unnerving business of maintaining a committed writing life.
I’ve been performing this juggling act as a professional author, professor, wife, and mother for more than four decades now, and I’ve weathered a great many changes in the publishing industry and literary scene. But the fundamentals of telling a meaningful story and moving readers emotionally have not changed. Nor, in my experience, have the hunger and yearning of literary agents and editors to discover writers who have passionate voices and compelling perspectives that demand to be read.
As a ghostwriter of Big-5 bestsellers, I work closely with top agents and editors, and one of the reasons I love this stack is the opportunity it gives me to share my latest on-the-job insights with you, alongside MFA-level craft advice.
Here’s a small sampling of these posts from the MFA Lore Archives:
If you upgrade now you’ll be able to read these posts in full, along with hundreds of other nuggets of MFA Lore. I also hope you’ll contact me with the burning issues, questions, and conundrums that are bedeviling your writing life. I’ll do my best to advise you as if you were one of my own MFA students.
And if you’re looking for a holiday gift for a fellow writer or student, you can give MFA Lore as a year’s gift with the same discount:
This offer ends on December 15. So please take advantage of your 50% discount now.
Such a great offer! I’ll spread the word!