[Nicky C]

Hi! I'm really new to this forum and have skimmed through your threads and don't see this particular question mentioned. My apologies if it is a repeat! (BTW - You have some excellent info available here and I look forward to reading it more thoroughly in the future.)

I'm about to encounter a problem with my Nicky Charles newsletters (I send one out when I publish a new book) and am wondering how other authors deal with this, if indeed they do send out newsletters. It seemed like a neat way to do some self-promo but now I'm in a bit of a pickle!

Right now people send me fan mail, ask to be added to the mailing list and I add them to my contacts but... I'm only allowed to have 1500 contacts on hotmail and at the rate things are going I'll be out of space by the end of the summer. When I started this I never expected to have so many readers or that they'd want a newsletter! Now I'm left scratching my head. How do other author's manage this? Oh and I write as a hobby, my books are free, so I don't really want to spend a lot of money. Any ideas on what to do? The idea of saving as a word doc and then copy/pasting sounds rather daunting.

Sorry this is so long! I will try to be more sucinct in the future.

Nicky