Don't add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don't put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
My website bulletin board is the place I interact with my readers.
I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how they read it, what it was like, what they enjoyed, there's a thrill. Writers who don't make their email addresses public are missing out on something wonderful.
I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
We've patented the idea... of using the address book as a place to declare that you like a brand. By so doing, the brand has now got your permission to send you personal messages - it could be money off offers, coupons, promotions, just information, whatever is appropriate.