A ghostwriting service for fiction authors
Your Readers Want to
Hear From You. Regularly.
A professionally ghostwritten monthly newsletter keeps you in front of your readers, deepens their loyalty, and sells books — without adding another writing task to your already-full plate.
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A List You Never Write to Is a List That’s Dying
You built your email list. Maybe it took years. You ran promotions, offered reader magnets, collected subscribers one by one from the back matter of every book. That list represents real people — readers who liked your work enough to raise their hand and say, yes, I want more of this.
But here’s what happens when you go quiet: those readers don’t wait. They move on. They read other authors. They forget why they signed up. When you finally do send something — to announce a new release, to run a sale — your open rates are dismal, your click-throughs are worse, and the readers who might have been your biggest champions are strangers again.
“Your email list isn’t an asset you can set aside and come back to later. It’s a relationship. And like any relationship, it requires regular attention to stay alive.”
The authors who build devoted, book-buying readerships aren’t necessarily the best writers or the most prolific publishers. They’re the ones who show up consistently — in their readers’ inboxes, in their readers’ lives — month after month, year after year. They feel like people their readers actually know.
That presence doesn’t have to consume your writing time. It just has to happen. And that’s exactly what this service is designed to make possible.
Why it works
The Author-Reader Relationship Is Built in the Inbox
There’s a reason the most commercially successful authors — the ones whose readers buy every book on release day, who drive word-of-mouth, who leave reviews without being asked — almost all have one thing in common: they communicate with their readers regularly, personally, and authentically.
A newsletter isn’t just a marketing tool. It’s the place where a reader transitions from someone who bought a book to someone who follows an author. That distinction matters enormously for your long-term career.
Think about the authors you follow most devotedly. The ones whose new releases you preorder automatically, whose announcements you actually look forward to reading. Almost certainly, you feel like you know them in some way — their sense of humor, their process, their life outside the books. That familiarity didn’t come from reading their novels alone. It came from the ongoing conversation those authors were willing to have with their readers.
A regular newsletter creates that conversation for you. It gives readers a reason to stay engaged between releases. It builds anticipation for whatever you’re working on next. And it creates the kind of emotional investment that turns passive readers into active advocates — people who recommend your books without being asked, simply because they feel personally connected to you as a writer.
The numbers behind the relationship
What Consistent Contact Actually Does
Email remains the single most powerful direct marketing channel available to authors — but only when used consistently. The data is unambiguous.
Social media platforms change their algorithms, throttle your reach, and disappear entirely. Your email list is the one audience you actually own. But ownership without engagement is just a database. The value of your list lives entirely in the relationship you maintain with it — and that relationship requires consistent, quality contact.
What you gain
What a Regular Newsletter Actually Does for Your Career
Keeps You Top of Mind Between Releases
The average reader follows dozens of authors. When your next book comes out, the ones who remember you — and care — are the ones who’ve been hearing from you. Regular contact means you stay in the conversation even when you have nothing new to sell.
Drives Launch-Day Sales
A warm, engaged list responds to new release announcements with dramatically higher conversion rates than a cold one. Every newsletter you send between launches is an investment in the performance of your next release.
Sells the Backlist Continuously
New subscribers are always joining your list. A newsletter that weaves in genuine enthusiasm for your existing catalog — naturally, conversationally — keeps older books earning without a separate promotional push.
Generates Reviews on Demand
Readers who feel connected to you respond to asks. A well-crafted newsletter that occasionally requests reviews — from an audience that actually wants to support you — outperforms any automated review-request sequence.
Builds a Community, Not Just a List
Readers who hear from you regularly begin to feel like they’re part of something. They share your newsletters. They talk about you with other readers. They become the word-of-mouth engine that no advertising budget can replicate.
Protects You From Algorithm Changes
Every reader on your email list is a direct connection — no middleman, no platform risk. The more you invest in that relationship now, the more insulated your career is from whatever social media or retail algorithm shifts come next.
What goes into each newsletter
More Than an Announcement. A Real Letter.
The newsletters that get opened, read, and replied to aren’t the ones that read like press releases. They’re the ones that feel personal — like a letter from someone whose perspective you genuinely value. That’s the standard I write to.
Every newsletter I ghostwrite is built around your voice, your world, and what’s actually happening in your writing life. Depending on your cadence and goals, a newsletter might include elements like:
Every issue is drafted, revised, and delivered to you ready to send — or with enough lead time for your input and final approval. Nothing goes out with your name on it until you’re satisfied it sounds like you.
Plans & pricing
Choose Your Cadence
Every plan includes a minimum three-month engagement — enough time to truly build momentum with your readership and see measurable results. Choose the frequency that matches your writing pace and your goals.
Steady
1 newsletter per month
$575.00/mo
3-month minimum · billed monthly
- 1 fully ghostwritten newsletter per month
- Custom subject line & preview text
- Written in your voice, your style
- One round of revisions per issue
- Delivered 5 days before send date
Engaged
2 newsletters per month
$1500.00/mo
3-month minimum · billed monthly
- 2 fully ghostwritten newsletters per month
- Custom subject lines & preview text
- Written in your voice, your style
- One round of revisions per issue
- Delivered 5 days before each send date
- Monthly content planning call (30 min)
Prolific
4 newsletters per month
$2500.00/mo
3-month minimum · billed monthly
- 4 fully ghostwritten newsletters per month
- Custom subject lines & preview text
- Written in your voice, your style
- One round of revisions per issue
- Delivered 5 days before each send date
- Bi-weekly content planning calls (30 min)
- Priority turnaround on revisions
The process
How We Work Together
Good ghostwriting requires genuine collaboration — especially for something as personal as a newsletter that goes out under your name. Here’s what the process looks like from start to your first send.
The Voice Interview
We start with a 90-minute conversation about your writing, your readers, your personality, and your goals. I listen for more than information — I’m learning how you talk, what you find funny, what you care about, what you’d never say. This is the foundation everything is built on.
The Content Calendar
Before your first newsletter, we map out a content plan for the first three months — what each issue will focus on, when announcements need to land, how we’ll weave in your backlist. You’ll always know what’s coming and have the opportunity to shape it.
The First Draft
I write your first newsletter and send it to you well before your scheduled send date. Read it, mark it up, tell me what sounds like you and what doesn’t. This first draft is often when the voice really clicks into place.
Revise and Refine
Every issue includes one round of revisions. Your feedback makes each subsequent newsletter sharper and more distinctly yours. Most clients find that after the first two or three issues, very little revision is needed at all.
You Hit Send
You load the finished newsletter into your email platform and hit send. Your readers get a thoughtful, personal, well-crafted letter from their favorite author. You get credit for writing it — because in every way that matters, you did.
Is this right for you?
Who This Service Is — and Isn’t — For
This is a great fit if…
- You have an existing email list (any size)
- You know you should be emailing more but never quite get around to it
- You’re in a busy writing season and can’t spare bandwidth for marketing
- You want newsletters that sound like you, not like corporate copy
- You have at least one published book and a back catalogue to promote
- You’re willing to invest in your relationship with your readers for the long term
- You have a new release coming up and want an engaged list ready for it
This probably isn’t for you if…
- You don’t have an email list yet (consider the onboarding service first)
- You want full editorial control and prefer to write everything yourself
- You’re looking for a pure promotional blast service
- You’re not willing to do a voice interview or provide feedback
- You can’t commit to a minimum six-month engagement
Ready to show up for your readers?
Your Readers Are Waiting to Hear From You
Every month that passes without a newsletter is a month your readers drift a little further away. Let’s change that — with something they’ll actually look forward to reading.
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Joe Nassise is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 72 novels across military urban fantasy, supernatural thriller, military sci-fi, and LitRPG. He has been nominated three times for the Bram Stoker Award and has spent over a decade teaching and mentoring fiction writers.
He writes his own reader newsletters across multiple active series and understands firsthand — as both a working author and a reader — what makes the difference between a newsletter that builds genuine loyalty and one that gets quietly unsubscribed.