Zara Keane on Nurturing Your Newsletter

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Episode 037 / Cozy mystery author Zara Keane shares how changing genres allowed her to write to her strengths. We also delve into nurturing our newsletters, chatbots, and selling direct.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the</span> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/groups/304647074240099/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">WIKT Facebook group</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">! You can find show notes and links at</span> <a href="https://wishidknownforwriters.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">wishidknownforwriters.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intro links: </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this podcast episode, you’ll discover:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why finishing that first book is so important</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How our writing processes change and evolve and how we can’t pin down a single system and replicate it again and again</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why trying to do it all is a mistake and the importance of filtering advice</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Zara moved from romance to cozy mystery</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Zara’s “experiment budget” and her attitude to testing</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Writing to your strengths--writing in a genre that lets you use your natural talents to their fullest</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Nurturing your newsletter</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Filtering readers who find you through a promotion</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using a serial nove