So apparently the most important part of a successful writing career is an email list. Not just any email list but one that includes high value subscribers, the type that buy your book the moment it comes out, leave lovely reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, and tell all their friends to buy your book – or at least subscribe to your email list.

Check out this great article on getting those subscribers on your list:

6 Tips for Acquiring High-Value Newsletter Subcribers

Do you have a regular newsletter for your subscribers?

I’m guilty of letting my email list run cold. Not in 2020, this year, the email list is going to heat up. How about yours?

With the natural disaster of the Australian bush fires it’s nice to see the entire country digging deep and helping out in ways they can. Generosity should not be measured. We each give what we can.

Authors ask readers to dig deep for nation’s bushfire crisis

Related: Australia Burns: When Disaster Brings People Together

We don’t have crystal ball to tell us what’s going to happen but we all like to make predictions at some point in time. Whether it’s predicting what’s going to happen in your life, with your writing or the publishing industry, looking at current trends we can try to predict what’s to come and try to position ourselves to make the most of what’s to come.

Self Publishing Predictions for 2020 and the 2020s

What are you predictions for 2020 and beyond?

Whether you want to hear it or not, you’re not going to sell books without marketing yourself. Sure you could hire someone to do it for you but you have to believe in yourself, your abilities and your product from day one, even if everything around you is falling apart. You can’t avoid book marketing, not in the 2020s. Marketing is evolving and it will keep evolving and you need to keep up to stay in the game.

2020 Book Marketing Predictions, Trends, & Hopes

Do you have any book marketing tactics that have worked or are working for your right now?

Publishing is an evolving industry. The gate keeps are gone. Publishing is accessible to anyone with an idea and an internet connection. It means that the readers choose who stays on top of the game. It’s exciting and the arena is filled with opportunities.

Have you come across anything interesting in the writing and publishing sphere?