Let's start with some administrative business: you might not know why you're receiving this email! 

1. You might be an Ainsley Booth reader (that's my alter-ego). If you subscribed to my Ainsley newsletter at some point, you may have accidentally signed up for this list at the same time, because I keep them on the same MailerLite servers. You can update your preferences by clicking on the link at the bottom of this email. But if you have any interest in writing genre fiction, feel free to stick around, this email might be relevant to you!

2. You might be an author who signed up YEARS ago when I floated the idea of teaching Romance Your Brand as a course...and then never did. HEY, THANKS FOR OPENING THIS EMAIL! Finally, I've done something with that course material, and it's a BOOK! Coming out next week, in fact. (and the paperback is already live)

3. You're a new-to-the-list author, and you already know about the Romance Your Brand book. Excellent, welcome, let's get down to it.

I’m Zoe. I write romance novels (fifty-six and counting), and I give workshops on genre fiction writing. For a long time, I said I’d never write a non-fiction book, but as I say in the foreword to Romance Your Brand, I’m obviously a liar.

There is nothing that I like more than talking about writing craft and the publishing business, and when my friend Rosemary Rey asked me on Twitter if I would ever write a book, I said no, never ... and then remembered all the course content I wrote for a one-time only beta version of Romance Your Brand.

It's time to share my humble thoughts on building series with the world.

My goal for this newsletter is to share a bit of monthly writing or publishing or marketing advice for writers of genre fiction. First and foremost, I am a writer myself. I'm not cut out for coaching or teaching long-running courses, but I love doing in-person workshops, and I see publishing these How To books as an extension of that. The best part of any workshop is the Q&A at the end, so please feel free to reply to this or any of my emails with your questions. If they're relevant to the group at large, I'll share highlights in subsequent newsletters.

~ Zoe