Starting May 11th, I’m releasing lessons from Romance Your Launch—my premium self-publishing program for romance authors—right here on the blog and directly to your inbox.

For free. For you.

Here’s what this actually is

Romance Your Launch is the program I’ve delivered live twice now, over 12 weeks each time, inside the Author Ever After community.

Authors who’ve gone through it have used it to publish their actual, real, fabulous first (and second, third and more) romance novels. It covers everything  from the moment you have a title and know your tropes and sub-genre to having a finished manuscript to the day you press publish and pop your champagne.

(Mr. Bloom opens mine, since the Pop! makes me jump every single time. I know. I know.)

Here’s a taste of what’s coming your way. These are the module titles. Each module has between five and ten lessons. Each lesson will be delivered as a blog post (there are about 80 of them!).

• Understanding the romance market—where your book fits and who your readers are
• Your romance author identity—your publishing name, your bios, and your brand
• Finding your first readers—covering your lead magnet, email list, website and pre-launch social media strategy
• Revise and shine—all about self-editing to save you money
• Pre-publication considerations—understanding KDP, IngramSpark, royalties, pricing, and more
• Inbox insights—growing your email list and building real reader relationships
• Your complete launch plan—built around your actual life, your actual resources, your actual goals
• Building your fanbase—covers ads, social media, live events, boxsets, special editions, and lots more
• The business of being an author—budgets, taxes, copyright, and more

Each lesson is bite-sized. Never more than 15 minutes to read. Implementation is another story, but I’m confident you’ll have more clarity at the end of each lesson than you did heading in.*

Why am I doing this?

Because the path to self-publishing a romance novel shouldn’t be as complicated as the enemies-to-lovers relationship in your book. And there is so much noise out there—conflicting and outdated advice, overwhelming how-to content, courses that cost thousands and leave you more confused than when you started.

You deserve a clear and practical roadmap. One built by someone who’s made the mistakes so you don’t have to. One that doesn’t assume you have a massive platform or unlimited time or money. One that meets you where you actually are.

That’s what Romance Your Launch is.

Want in?

Join the email list and you’ll get every lesson delivered right to your inbox.

There are two options:

1. Get every lesson starting with Lesson #1 to your email. Even if you’re reading this and notice 5 or 10 or 20 lessons are on the blog already.
2. Get the lessons starting where we are right now. Check the blog to see what you might want to catch up on before the emails start landing in your inbox.

Please don’t sign up twice!

You’ll get repeat emails and if you unsubscribe from one list, you’ll be unsubscribed from my full list and stop getting any lessons. If you do accidentally join twice, email me and let me know which delivery schedule you want to keep. I’ll untag the other one for you!

The first lesson is almost ready. I can’t wait to share it with you. 🍾

* If at any point during the program delivery you decide you’d like more help, members of the Author Ever After community meet three times every week for that very reason. That’s one reason I prefer the term indie publishing over self-publishing since becoming a published author is way better when we’re doing it with friends, not by ourselves.