Email Newsletter Marketing for Novelists: The Basics

I've been asked about this before and a reader (who is also a writer) just asked again in email. So I'm answering here in hopes it'll help some of you who write books. I believe that any novelist who is online and has books coming out in bookstores should be doing this.

Always keep "free" in mind. ( Read more... )

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The best teachers of writing are great novels.If you want to hear about writing from some of the great writers in another way, start with the Paris Review interviews.

And don't forget -- let's get Afterlife's online readership to 10,000 by Halloween night. If that happens, I've promised to write a new free serial in 2009 -- the fifth Harrow novel.  ( Read more... )

I've been hearing about and reading posts about how some newspapers are cutting back on their book review space. M.J. Rose, clearly one of the smartest and most talented novelists and influencers on the internet when it comes to the book business, has some blog entries about this here. 

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