How to build an audience that actually wants to hear from you.

(Using email.)

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Read This helps you understand how to build an email newsletter that readers not only want to read but actively support.

Each week, we’ll explore the insights, tactics + secrets (shhh) behind building a successful email system that works for you.

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You too could learn to love email.

Hey, Stephen Knezovich here. I’m the human behind Read This.

There was a time when I really really really DID NOT ENJOY the act of email marketing. It felt kinda dirty and invasive. But then I accidental found a job in marketing (oops), and now, 15+ years later, I’m a bit of a freak about it (also, oops).

My mission is to help nonfiction writers* do email better and maybe even (gulp) find it fun.

When I’m not preaching and pontificating on the the virtues of email, I can usually be found in my art studio making cut+paste collages or sending out GLUU (which is, yes, another email newsletter). I also am one of the co-founders of the (surprise!) email-based literary magazine Short Reads. I live in Pittsburgh with my wife, two kids, and giant dog.

* Read This is for all writers, really. And artists, too. Anyone doing creative work can benefit from building a better email list.

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About me

Beyond my freelance work with writers, I’m also the co-founder of the literary magazine Short Reads, the marketing director for Ascender Book Services, the marketing strategist for Off Assignment, a collage artist, and the curator of two email newsletters: Read This and Gluu .

Previously, I spent 16 years as the director of marketing for the literary nonprofit and publisher Creative Nonfiction. And before that I was a fledgling graphic designer, an occasional DJ, an inept book reviewer, an undisciplined fiction writer, the interim GM of a (now successful) restaurant, a film school dropout, the founder of a fake fraternity, a passionate (but decidedly not professional) skateboarder, and an aspiring comic book illustrator.

I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with my wife, two kids, and our giant dog.

I send emails, occasionally.