Music for your day

I recently (as of yesterday) discovered British folk singer Laura Marling through a cover of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" over the end credits of my current fluffy brain-candy show, 9-1-1 Lone Star, which was so sublime that I had to look up who was singing it, and then I went and looked up everything she'd done and nabbed a bunch of songs off iTunes.

My favorite of her songs thus far is "Goodbye England, Covered in Snow":

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And the Dylan cover that originally sucked me in:

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And another one I really liked, "Rambling Man" (not the one you're thinking of):

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Notes on growing a brand new mailing list

I thought this might be of interest to the self-pub people here! One of my major goals this year is to take everything I've learned about promoting myself through the Zoe project, as well as the Lauren Esker project on the side, and apply it to relaunching my real-name books, and see if I can make some decent money off them without compromising the stories and themes I want to work with. I'm working against a steep uphill curve here because none of my books are particularly commercial and most of them are books I wrote years ago, had rejected by a bunch of agents, and eventually ended up sitting on. So I'm entirely unsure if I will actually make any money doing this at all. But I'm going to try.

( Mailing lists and the building thereof )