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Your author website is your Internet information hub, and this is where you want to direct readers, editors, or literary agents who are looking for more information about you and your writing. Social media is one way to connect potential fans with your website—but...
How many emails do you receive each day? Ten? Thirty-five? Over a hundred? With so much competition for your attention, some emails will be unopened and unread. The same is true for your mailing list subscribers: Your email is competing against many others for...
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Sending an email newsletter to your subscriber list is a great way to keep your followers engaged and updated about your writing projects, publications, and upcoming events. But even when you spend hours writing, editing, and adding useful links to your author...
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