Homework #8 (Magic School Story)

Where I am with my email list:

I currently have ~1,700 emails on my list with a 60-65% open rate. I’d like to get to 3,000+ subscribers by the release of my magic school novel next March. Honestly, the biggest challenge I face is just on making consistent time each month to work on growing it through giveaways and joint promos. I’m more prone to spend my writing time actually working on my book or other projects…so I really just need to knuckle down and focus on email list building.

My lead magnet:

I’m using a short story collection I released last year: https://josiahdegraaf.com/free-book/

A subject/email that your readers really responded to:

This email is the highest-performing email I’ve sent (except for my first two automation emails): https://preview.mailerlite.com/r1a6v7s3p9 The title was “My favorite middle-grade fantasy novel.”