Welcome to Ask Amanda.

Hi, I’m Amanda. I’m a musician, a singer, a speaker, a mom, and, sometimes, a writer. I wrote a New York Times best-selling book about ten years ago called The Art of Asking (it’s a memoir about reciprocity, art, and our long-standing human difficulty asking for what we need. 

This Substack has evolved over time. I like writing and publishing my stuff immediately. So right now, this is just a Place Where I Put My Random Writing. Essays, reflections, speeches, Screams of Consciousness ... you name it. I am a crowdfunded artist, and I love writing directly for my crowd. All of my wider work—songs, podcasts, videos, poems, live-casts—is crowdfunded over on Patreon (which you can follow for free or subscribe to here), but this is the main home for my word-publishing. Everything I publish here is funded by the people who subscribe either to my Substack (if you only want to tune in to my writing) or the Patreon (if you want to get my constant barrage of posts, art, and thoughts).

This spot is also sometimes an advice column, written by me, Amanda, in response to you, the people of earth in the ever-shifting zeitgeist. I’ve always been an avid reader of The Comments—my community can be better writers than I am sometimes. I’m a crowd artist. I’ve spent decades on social media, blogging, reading, connecting, seeing and trying to understand people.

You can also ask me anything. If and when I write the column, I’ll pull from all the questions submitted over time.

Anonymously email: AskAmanda@amandapalmer.net

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This is a place for my self-published writing and advice column. I read the comments. If you Ask, I'll respond if and when I can. We will talk. Back and forth forever. Leave questions in comments, or email AskAmanda@amandapalmer.net (200-word limit, pls).

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NYtimes best-selling author ("The Art of Asking"), musician, mother, TED speaker, Guinness world-record holder, and all-round grateful crowdfunded artist. Co-founder of The Dresden Dolls.