Episode
How to Build an Email List before publishing your novel
- Podcast
- Novel Marketing
- Published
- Oct 8, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 3017
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/novel-marketing-569504/episodes/how-to-build-an-email-list-before-publishing-your-novel/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/novel-marketing-569504/how-to-build-an-email-list-before-publishing-your-novel.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
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 DeG...