Hi Mr. Mealer, I'm trying to learn how to market the novels I write and learned that I need to develop an email list. I don't want to be too presumptuous and blatantly ask folks to join, but other than that I don't have a clue how to build one. Can you share how you built your email list? Thank you. Frank

B.A. Mealer Blatantly asking folks does help. But I actually wrote a short novelette as a give away. It was a prologue to the novel I was selling. I gave it away for free on AuthorsXP and Prolificworks in their promotions. Cost me less than $100. I had less than 20 % who left. You enter them in the giveaways that fit your genre. On Bookfunnel, they have free list building giveaways and I got al most 100 from one of those. These are people who read in your genre but you need to keep them engaged with Monthly news letters and updates and when your book is due out and things about your. So it does take some work to keep them on your list. Those who send out daily newsletters that are nothing but "buy my book" get deleted and a lot of unsubscribes. You can do every week if you want but once a month seems to work quite well. Use a company like Mailerlite where you can have 1000 people on the list for free.

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