How to Grow Both Your Subscriber List and Library

Fiction: all genres, Non-fiction: Tools for Creatives, plus join our upcoming promotion for non-fiction and poetry.

We’re moving Post Op and The Free Library to Literary Salon and saving some of the most important posts in the transition. This is one of those important posts—so important. Bookfunnel. Don’t leave home without it.

The banners included in the post will eventually be out of date—although they’re all current at the time of this posting. The information, however, is evergreen. Plant it in your brain. Let it grow into a forest of knowledge which you can cut down, pulp into paper, and transform into books. This is how authors are born. Either that or storks. My parents could never get their stories straight.

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Click on either of the first two banners to see your choice of books. Click on a book to see more information. Click on the third banner if you’d like to join the promotion.

Please repost so these promotions get seen. If you are in a promotion, remember you also need to share it using your special link. Share it once in your newsletter, often on social media, and I can schedule to run your link here as well, just reach out to me.

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How to Use Bookfunnel

Bookfunnel allows you to give away books as a bonus for subscribing to your newsletter, and their promotions are a wonderful way to grow.

You want the Mid-List Author option. If you’re not sure you want to keep it, you can pay monthly for $8.33 which is suddenly confusing. That’s $99.96 a year. It costs $100 a year if you pay annually. Why am I paying more to pay annually? I don’t understand.

I also don’t care. They can have my four pennies. I just think it’s strange.

For an extra $50, you can include integration, but you don’t care because you’re on Substack. Bookfunnel can’t integrate with Substack.

You can also spend twice or three times as much to offer audiobooks as well. That’s up to you, but you can always add it later. Add it later.

Keep. It. Simple.

Remember your To-Do List?

• Gather and edit articles.

• Create an EPub file.

• Design a cover on Canva.

• Join Bookfunnel at the $100 / year level.

• Upload your book, book information, and cover.

Please pay no attention to how many tabs I have open. I need those tabs, and they need me.

I have stuff happening on my page. When you start, you’ll have no stuff happening. You’ll begin by clicking on Books.

You’ll still have no stuff happening, and you’ll be a little confused about what you’re supposed to do. Then you’ll notice this big Action button in the upper right. Click on the big Action button.

Select Add New Book.

Enter the information they ask for to the degree that you have it. You can change things later.

Click Create Book.

Upload your cover and your epub or pdf files.

• Create a landing page.

This is pretty straight forward. Choose the option from the menu. Click on the action button. Select which book the landing page is for. Select what kind of landing page you want to create. In this case, you’re making this selection:

• Find an upcoming promotion hosted by Thaddeus Thomas and join it.

Select Group Promos in the menu. Click on Non-Fiction. Look for a Promotion hosted by Thaddeus Thomas.

You’ll apply to the promotion and choose which landing page it should be connected to. You’ll be approved and given a promotional link.

• Copy your promotional link.

• When the promotion starts, make a big deal of it in your newsletter. Share your promotional link for your subscribers to use. When they click through, you get credit.

• Share that link on social media throughout the promotion.

• Download the CSV of new subscribers and upload them to your subscriber list.

A CSV is a spreadsheet, comma separated values, but it doesn’t matter what it is. You download it, and then upload it to your newsletter.

And then you’re good to go. If you have any problems, I’ve heard Bookfunnel has great customer service. I’m also available to answer whatever questions I can.

Until then,

I’m Thaddeus Thomas