Crew!

Meet the Sirens of Substack.

First, meet the delightful and dangerous divas of dish, Nan Tepper and Eileen Dougharty. Our beloved muse and matron saint of feminism, Slamone de Beauvoir. We can rely on her to be unreliable, but even when she’s MIA, her spirit fills our hearts and minds. There’s Zoomarella aka Mel Moseley. Our media maven, Jeanne Vitale. Jeanne puts the finishing touches on the storyteller videos. We’ve grown some since we started, and now have a few more beauties who’ve come to help out! Welcome Rosana Francescato, our box office maven, and Wake Lloire, who defies specific definition, they’re a powerhouse of wonder and creativity.

Our crew is strapped in and ready to take off.

Nan is memoirist-in-chief at The Next Write Thing. She styles stacks for other writers on the platform at Style Your Stack. She’s the designer for WBTYS. If you like what you see, give her a holler. Nan doesn’t believe we have to be competitive to win at writing or life. We have to show up as our best selves, keep sharing our truth and making each other roar with laughter on the regular to offset the intermittent shrieks of rage!

When Eileen Dougharty isn’t flying around the country passing out drinks, snacks, and snark, she is furiously scribbling her musings at You’re Right, I Do Look Tired, here on Substack. She began writing sketch comedy when she moved to Chicago in 2009, but quickly found her real life adventures were far more entertaining. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2018, Eileen chronicles her unconventional life, most recently featuring tales of how she spent her Hot Brain Surgery Summer.

Too poor to marry, Slamone chain-smoked philosophy and took lovers instead. No time for kids while birthing feminism with a pen and a glare. Could out-drink and out-think her existential fuck buddies, including Sartre and Nelson Algren. She’s trouble. But she’s good trouble, and we love her.

Nickname: Beaver

Mel Moseley is a storyteller, writer, actor, musician, artist, and fledgling witch. She lives with her black cat, Shadow, mostly off-grid in Fiddletown, California. If you want to collaborate with her, the project has got to include play, community, and creativity. Mel writes Mel’s Messy Love Lab!

Wake Lloire is a non-binary whirlwind. They love macarons, the colour of night just before it’s truly dark and want to apologize for the extra ‘u’ in colour, because they are very very Canadian.

Rosana Francescato is an unapologetic Flower Child, her name for the generation between Boomers and Gen X — previously hidden, now ready to tell their stories and be heard. At least, she is. Given her love of writing and her difficulty keeping her mouth shut, what choice does she have? Rosana’s friends and family are glad she’s found an outlet for her storytelling tendencies but wish she’d stop sending them emails about it. Actually, they’ve been very patient with her.

A woman of few words, (not really, she didn’t feel like writing her bio), so I’m I’m going to use my words for her here. Jeanne Vitale is a multi-talented, funny as fuck, best friend of Nan for 30 years. She’s a visual artist, and utilizes all kinds of media. She creates fabulous video and and original sculpture from found items that have a political or social message in their expression. She’s a fossil hunter and an organic gardener and she’s greatly appreciated by all who make her acquaintance. I love her to the moon and beyond.