Email Marketing for Authors in 2026: How to Grow Your Audience and Sell More Books
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This episode discusses the future of email marketing for authors in 2026, focusing on strategies for audience growth and book sales.
✍️ Access The Free Class Here: Email Marketing For Writers and Authors This episode explains how email marketing works for authors in 2026, focusing on audience growth, engagement, and book sales. You’ll learn how to build an email list, improve open and click rates, create effective welcome sequences, and use AI to personalise and scale your emails. Ideal for writers and indie authors who want to grow a loyal readership, increase book sales, and take full control of their audience beyond social media. Email marketing remains one of the most powerful tools available to writers and authors — and it’s about to change. In this podcast episode, we break down how email marketing works for writers right now , and where it’s heading in 2026. Using real data, platform insights, and author-specific examples, we explore why email still outperforms social media, how writers use it to sell books and grow Patreon memberships, and what separates emails that get ignored from emails that drive real engagement. We cover the fundamentals every writer needs to understand: choosing the right email platform, setting clear goals, building welcome sequences, improving open and click rates, and creating…
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Host: Richie Billing
Topics covered
- email marketing
- audience growth
- book sales
- engagement
- AI in marketing
Keywords
- email marketing
- authors
- audience growth
- book sales
- engagement
- AI
- email list
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