Build a professional online presence with an author website that showcases your books, bio, and contact details, helping you grow your fanbase.
New Your author website is your most powerful email list building tool — serving potential subscribers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from every reader who finds you through search, social media, or your books' back matter.
Most author newsletters fail not because authors have nothing to say, but because they default to formats that treat subscribers as a sales audience rather than a reader community. This guide covers what actually makes readers open and engage with author newsletters — and how to build a newsletter that drives book sales by being genuinely worth reading.
BookFunnel handles the technical complexity of reader magnet delivery — device-specific file formatting, side-loading assistance, and email platform integration. This guide focuses specifically on the website side: how to embed BookFunnel into your author website effectively, connect it to your email list, use it for ARC distribution, and track downloads as conversion events in ScribeCount.
StoryOrigin is the free alternative to BookFunnel with built-in newsletter swap and group promotion capabilities that make it particularly powerful for list growth. This guide covers the website integration specifically: connecting StoryOrigin delivery to your email platform, using swaps and promotions to drive traffic to your author website, and measuring StoryOrigin traffic in ScribeCount.
Everything covered in these articles, built into ScribeCount. Free for 14 days.
Start Free Trial →No credit card required · Cancel any time
