Indie Author Magazine Featuring Robyn Wideman: Indie Author Magazine, #13

By Chelle Honiker and Alice Briggs

★ In this issue of Indie Author Magazine, we examine email marketing, helping you craft newsletters that will grab readers' attention and keep them coming back for more. ★ 

Read three key articles: 

✓ JPG vs. TXT: Are Newsletters Better When They Include Images?

✓ Spring Cleaning Your Email List: Your Guide to Removing Bots, Dead Addresses, and Non-responders

✓ What Indie Authors Can Learn from Brandon Sanderson's Multimillion-Dollar Kickstarter Campaign

Meet Robyn Wideman, the Author and Publisher Who Uses Data to Understand His Audience and Drive His Success.

Plus:

Our Sassy, Advice-Giving Aunt, ★ Indie Annie ★ Encourages An Author Who Questions Whether Her Bad Grammar Should Keep Her from Writing

Indie Insider: The Attitude Shift that Will Help You Achieve Success

Is Your Email Service Provider Up to Snuff? Tips for Finding One Right for You

Ten Tips: Email Subject Lines

Plottr Offers Peek at Pro Version Coming Later This Month

A True 'Slice of Life' Story: How to Make Memoirs that Mean Something

Writing with Chronic Illness: Creative Ways to Keep Creating

4 Tips for Preserving Your Energy and Streamlining Your Creative Process

It's a Cinch: The Fact and Fiction of Corsets

The Women of GameLit: Making Their Mark on a Male-Dominated Genre

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chelle Honiker
• Release date: Apr 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201438067

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Indie Author Magazine

Featuring Robyn Wideman

Chelle Honiker and Alice Briggs

Indie Author Magazine

Featuring Robyn Wideman

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Contents

About This Version of Indie Author Magazine

Meet Indie Annie

Typewriter Tales

From the Publisher

Insider Insights

Attitude of Top Indies

What the Indie Author Can Learn from the Sanderson Kickstarter

Ask Indie Annie

Dear Indie Annie,

10 Tips

10 Tips for Email Subject Lines

Featured Authors

Robyn Wideman’s Audience First Approach to Publishing

Technology

Choosing an ESP—No Sixth Sense Required!

Plottr: Pro Level Unlocked

Devil in the Details

It’s a Cinch: The Fact and Fiction of Corsets

Craft

A True ‘Slice of Life’ Story

Marketing

Spring Clean Your Email List

JPG vs. TXT

Genre Tropes

THE WOMEN OF GAMELIT

Health, Wellness, and Mindset

Writing with Chronic Illness: Creative Ways to Keep Creating

Four R’s to Find Your Essential Work . . . Instead of Rabbit Holes!

The Write Files

Tech Tools

Podcasts We Love

From the Stacks

About This Version of Indie Author Magazine

Spring Cleaning Your Email List, Choosing an Email Service Provider, Better Newsletters, and Eye-Catching Email Subject Lines

 In this issue of Indie Author Magazine, we examine email marketing, helping you craft newsletters that will grab readers’ attention and keep them coming back for more. 

Read three key articles:

JPG vs. TXT: Are Newsletters Better When They Include Images?

Spring Cleaning Your Email List: Your Guide to Removing Bots, Dead Addresses, and Non-responders

What Indie Authors Can Learn from Brandon Sanderson’s Multimillion-Dollar Kickstarter Campaign

Meet Robyn Wideman, the Author and Publisher Who Uses Data to Understand His Audience and Drive His Success.

Plus:

Our Sassy, Advice-Giving Aunt,  Indie Annie  Encourages An Author Who Questions Whether Her Bad Grammar Should Keep Her from Writing

Indie Insider: The Attitude Shift that Will Help You Achieve Success

Is Your Email Service Provider Up to Snuff? Tips for Finding One Right for You

Ten Tips: Email Subject Lines

Plottr Offers Peek at Pro Version Coming Later This Month

A True ‘Slice of Life’ Story: How to Make Memoirs that Mean Something

Writing with Chronic Illness: Creative Ways to Keep Creating

4 Tips for Preserving Your Energy and Streamlining Your Creative Process

It’s a Cinch: The Fact and Fiction of Corsets

The Women of GameLit: Making Their Mark on a Male-Dominated Genre

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Meet Indie Annie

Typewriter Tales

Our executive team offers a bit of perspective and insight into the issue.

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From the Publisher

And Just Like That … We’re ONE.

I realize that time ceased to have meaning when the world went topsy-turvy. What used to be a minute started to feel like seven hours. And what used to feel like a month sometimes felt like a single minute.

It’s like we all collectively jumped in a Tardis and started cranking the knobs.

With that in mind, I was still gobsmacked to see a major milestone on my calendar.

Indie Author Magazine is officially one year old.

To put it in perspective, that equates to:

86,000+ reads

253 articles

160,000+ words

11,000+ social media likes

… And one grateful team. Thank you for your support, and I hope that you’ll continue to let us help you reach your author-business goals.

We have exciting new projects in the works for our second year, starting with an Author Tech Summit in July, expanded video interviews on our YouTube Channel, an advisory board made up of smart industry insiders, and an in-person mastermind in San Antonio, Texas.

We’re just getting started.

On a personal note, I became