How to Build an Email List before publishing your novel

Novel Marketing · Oct 8, 2025 · 50m

Many authors make the mistake of writing a book first and then trying to find readers. This is backwards and rarely works. However, if you follow these three steps, your book will be set up for success.

Step #1: Identify your target reader.

Step #2: Start growing an audience of readers like that person.

Step #3: Launch your book.

But how do you find your Timothy? How do you grow your audience? And how do you write the kind of book they'll love?

In this week's episode, you'll hear from Josiah DeGraaf, a fantasy author and program director of the Young Writers Workshop, who did exactly that. He…