You write the books. We run the newsletter — one pen name at a time, only sent when you approve.
Advice apps hand you a to-do list and a blank page. The Author Loop hands you a finished issue every week — built from your own books and live reader-demand data — waiting for a ten-minute yes on your phone. That's the whole job.
The Author Loop is free · no card, nothing to pay · romance authors board first
Most tools coach you and leave the writing, the sending and the timing to you — at midnight, again. The Author Loop drafts the whole issue, schedules it, and only ever asks one thing of you: a yes.
Your voice comes from your published work. Your "what readers are loving now" section comes from live romance demand data. Three pen names? Three sealed newsletters — your dark romance readers never meet your cozy name.
The advice disappears the moment you close the app. The Author Loop builds you a real, growing list of readers you own — your subscribers, your accounts, in your control. Walk away any day and take all of it.
You wrote 2,000 words of fiction today. Somehow "write one newsletter" is the task that breaks you.
What do you even say between releases? The cursor blinks. The month slips.
You skipped a month, then three. Opens slide, and email providers quietly notice — hello, spam folder.
Everything above, times three, kept carefully apart. It's not a side task anymore. It's a second career.
The root is the same every time: a good newsletter is a real job, and you already have one — writing.
Here's the secret good newsletters share: they're not about the author — they're about the reader's obsession. The trope they can't stop reading. The subgenre that's suddenly everywhere. We build that in for you, every week.
A cover reveal, a release date, a behind-the-scenes moment — written the way you'd tell a friend, pulled from your plan.
The trope spotlight and "what's rising in your subgenre this month," built from live reader-demand data. Content an assistant simply can't make, because they don't have the data.
Your reader magnet through your own BookFunnel — tracked, and feeding your list without you lifting a finger.
Preorder, new release, backlist gem, or your store — one clear call to action per issue. Never a cluttered bazaar.
No sign-up, no card, no sales call. Comment one word on our Instagram post — find us at @perfectyearhq — and a real sample newsletter lands in your DMs, so you can see exactly what your readers would get.
Reading the sample never adds you to anything. You only join a list when you choose to.
You get the whole newsletter operation. All we ask is your yes before anything goes out.
What it replaces
| Do it yourself with tools | $30–$80/mo plus every hour of writing, forever |
| Hire a virtual assistant | $300–$1,100/mo, capped at one person's hours, no demand data |
| One-off promo placements | $25–$245 a send — renting readers for a day, keeping none |
| The Author Loop | Free. You approve the week and write the book. |
Add a pen name any time — each one is its own sealed newsletter, and each one is free. Stop any time; your list, your readers and your accounts stay yours.
Your voice profile is built from your published books plus a short questionnaire — pet phrases, hard nos, how spicy your voice runs versus your books. Your first issues get extra-close human review, and every edit you make teaches it. Most authors are down to tweaking a sentence by the third issue.
Each pen name is a complete, sealed newsletter: its own voice, list, magnet and reader base. Nothing ever crosses the streams. You add pen names one at a time, and every one of them is free.
Never. We take over your existing list where it already lives (MailerLite, Mailchimp, Kit and more), keep your sign-up forms working, and usually begin by gently waking dormant readers before we grow. It all stays in your account.
It's the perfect time — the list you start now sells the book you launch next year. One free story is enough to build a magnet around, and your first launch email goes to real readers instead of the void.
It's your newsletter, assembled by our engine from three real sources — your news, your books, and live reader-demand data — drafted in your voice, and sent only after you approve. Nothing is invented, and nothing sends itself. Think tireless assistant with perfect market data, not a robot with your login.
Nothing. The Author Loop is free — there's no card to add and nothing to pay. The table above is what you'd otherwise be spending to get a fraction of this.
Founding authors get first boarding and hand-held onboarding — and the whole Loop is free. Romance authors first — that's where our data runs deepest.
Free to join · no card · the list hears everything first