the diy author newsletter course
Get your author newsletter up and running with my step-by-step course!
learn how to set up and send your own beautiful author newsletter using Squarespace Campaigns…
engage with readers and grow your fan base
is this author newsletter course right for me?
This course is perfect for you if:
✓ Your author website is built on Squarespace
✓ You don’t have an author mailing list yet, or:
✓ You have an author mailing list set up but you’re yet to send an actual newsletter
✓ You're fed up of Mailchimp and want an easier-to-use solution
✓ The tech of setting up your author newsletter is overwhelming you!
Learn how to set up and send your own beautiful author newsletter using Squarespace Campaigns, with this step-by-step video course.
what you’ll learn…
✓ How to set up all the techy stuff
✓ How to add sign-up forms to your website
✓ How to import existing email subscribers to Squarespace Campaigns
✓ How to set up a beautiful template for your newsletter, in keeping with your author brand
✓ How to add content to your newsletter, and style it too
✓ How to send your email, once it’s ready
✓ How to set up automated emails to deliver ‘opt-in’ gifts (such as a free short story) to new subscribers
✓ How to choose the right pricing plan for you
✓ How to make sense of your newsletter analytics
so what exactly is Squarespace Campaigns?
Squarespace Campaigns is a newsletter platform. It's a much simpler, easy-to-use alternative to Mailchimp or Mailerite, and I highly recommend it for all authors with Squarespace websites. It allows you to manage your newsletter from the same place as your author website - saving you time and keeping things simple!
I designed this course specifically to help the many authors I speak to who have Squarespace websites set up, but have yet to sort out their author newsletter.
In the course, step-by-step, I walk you through how to set up and send your own beautiful author newsletter. By the end, you'll be sending newsletters with ease!
about your course teacher
Hi! I’m Charlotte Duckworth, and I design beautiful Squarespace websites for authors.
I’ve built more than 50 author websites on Squarespace, many for Sunday Times bestselling authors. I love sharing my knowledge to help my fellow authors harness the power of technology to build their career dreams.
Oh and I’m also an author myself! I’ve had six novels traditionally published (one was a USA Today bestseller!), and have two more under contract.
So I know exactly what you need on your author website to make sure it does your writing career justice!
frequently asked questions
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Yes you do. Campaigns is an integrated email platform and unfortunately you can't use it if your website is hosted elsewhere (ie on Wordpress).
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You can easily complete this course in a day! By the end you will have designed and created your very own professional and beautiful author newsletter, ready to send.
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The course consists of 15 video lessons that you can complete in your own time. There's no live element. You'll get lifetime course access, so you can take it at your own pace!
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A computer and good wifi. And perhaps a coffee! Also, before you start the course, you'll need to spend some time preparing the content for your newsletter. Then it will be ready and waiting to populate your shiny new newsletter template!
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This is a self-paced course and I won't be able to offer feedback on your author newsletter. All the information you need to set up and send your newsletter is included in the lessons. I'm confident that by the end you won't need me any longer!
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Absolutely! It's great that you have already started to build your author mailing list but don't worry, we can move your subscribers across from your existing newsletter platform to Squarespace. It's easy peasy and I show you how to do this in the course.
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I promise that if you're able to order a book online, you'll be able to understand this course! I go right back to basics and hold your hand throughout the process to make sure that you end up with a beautiful author newsletter, ready to send.
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No, this is a purely technical course, focused on setting up and sending your newsletter and getting to grips with Squarespace Campaigns. However, you'll find lots of advice in my (free!) introduction video about what to include in your author newsletter. 😊
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Squarespace Campaigns starts at just £6 per month. You can see the different pricing plans here >
Learn how to set up and send your own beautiful author newsletter using Squarespace Campaigns, with this step-by-step video course.
kind words from past clients
“The brilliant Charlotte Duckworth has just revitalised my much-neglected website and she has done it so efficiently and reasonably. I can’t recommend her more highly.”
— SARAH VAUGHAN, INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL
“My teaching session with Charlotte was fantastic. She is so patient, wise and super-duper knowledgeable. Thanks to her, I now finally have all the tools I need to turn my website into the platform of dreams!”
— ISABELLE BROOM, AUTHOR OF ONE WINTER MORNING
“Charlotte’s thoughtful, knowledgeable approach meant that within a matter of hours I had a beautifully refreshed author website that I could be immensely proud of.”
— POLLY CROSBY, AUTHOR OF THE ILLUSTRATED CHILD
“Charlotte’s expertise gave me the confidence to switch to Squarespace, and helped me turn my ideas into something that looks gorgeous. She combines fantastic technical and artistic abilities with the knowledge of what a website really needs to work.”
— KATE HARRISON, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE SHARE & THE 5:2 DIET BOOKS
Using Squarespace Campaigns to create the perfect author newsletter
Learn how to set up and send your own beautiful author newsletter using Squarespace Campaigns, with this step-by-step video course.