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    Mailing Lists Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #2
    Mailing Lists Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #2
    Mailing Lists Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #2
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    Mailing Lists Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #2

    By Patty Jansen

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    Self-published authors are coming to realise that a stable career is about a backlist of titles and keeping that backlist selling.

    But how do you do this?

    Invariably, advice given by other authors includes holding promotions and lowering the price of the first book in series, or even making it free. However, few people mention one of the most powerful ways to keep your backlist selling: the author mailing list.

    This is where Mailing Lists Unboxed comes in. It shows you:

    • The different types of author mailing lists
    • How to recruit people to sign up
    • What to do with your list once you have one
    • Attitudes about mailing lists, including those that stand in your way
    • Warnings and precautions
    • And much more

    This is not a book for beginners. If you know little about self-publishing, read Self-publishing Unboxed first.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatty Jansen
    Release dateOct 8, 2017
    ISBN9781540148742
    Mailing Lists Unboxed: The Three-year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction, #2
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    Patty Jansen

    Patty lives in Sydney, Australia, and writes both Science Fiction and Fantasy. She has published over 15 novels and has sold short stories to genre magazines such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact.Patty was trained as a agricultural scientist, and if you look behind her stories, you will find bits of science sprinkled throughout.Want to keep up-to-date with Patty's fiction? Join the mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/qqlAbPatty is on Twitter (@pattyjansen), Facebook, LinkedIn, goodreads, LibraryThing, google+ and blogs at: http://pattyjansen.com/

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