Any successful author will tell you, you need an email list.

This is the best selling tool you can get. A list of people who are already interested in your work. So that’s what I tried to build. Following the advice of many, I have done everything I can to build up a list of people who might be interested in my next book.

I had a modest list of 174. Not much by any means but I was proud of it. However, I had never utilized this list before yesterday.

Not wanting to bombard people’s inbox. (I hate when people do that.) I let it sit there, just waiting for the right moment to contact everyone.

Yesterday was that day!

Eager to inform people about my upcoming release, I carefully drafted my first email to my mailing list and after ten minutes of whittling and worrying, I actually pressed…