Look…

You’re asked by every single website you visit to join an email list. Usually with an annoying pop-up. And if you’re like me, you hate annoying pop-ups and you never do join those lists. Companies bombard your inbox with junk and ask you for money you don’t have, and even if you did have it, how did they get your email anyway? ‘Cause you didn’t give it to them and you’re sick of this crap. I get it.

But…

And you knew there was a “but” and I’m sorry, but… for independent authors who don’t rely on agents and who don’t have big advertising budgets and who don’t like that traditional publishing has gone “woke”, email lists are our bread-and-butter. Really. Without a list of readers whom we can notify when new writing is released, we simply have no hope of growing an audience or achieving any kind of success (literary or financial).

So…

If you sign up for the Cowboy Mystic newsletter, my promise to you is that you will never receive spam, your email will never be sold to third parties, and you will only be notified of new essay and book releases. My word is my bond.