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A screenwriter’s side hustle became a multi-business writing empire

Simon Owens’s Media Newsletter reports that Simon Owens interviewed Amy Suto, a former Hollywood screenwriter who left the industry to build a paid Substack newsletter with more than 1,000 subscribers, a freelance job platform called Cozy Jobs, ghostwriting work, and self-published novels.

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