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Meet Andy Zach

Get a Free Short Story – about my Newsletter! You’ll be reading it for the first time. But it’s not fictional–it’s a real life adventure of how I started and built my newsletter.

Just in case, you can join my newsletter here and get free audiobooks. Click now!

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How I started my newsletter

Timeline: October 31st, 2016

My first event, the Zombie Turkeys book launch in the Peoria North Library.

I captured people’s email addresses there, at these events. At every event, I had a yellow notebook pad with a signup list for people’s names and emails.

  • Nov 4, 2016 First Friday
  • Nov 5, 2016 Author Fair at Peoria Main Library
  • Nov 25-27th, 2016 Chambanacon

I sent emails to about 48 subscribers using my Yahoo email account.

I continued to gather emails and send them out monthly or bi-monthly since then.

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SciFi Story Fuel My Undead Mother-in-law Get Your Free Short Story
My Undead Mother-in-law cover. Click to get yours.

I subscribed to Booksweeps to start building my mail lists in 2017. Booklists offers your books on various mailing lists. When people click on your book, you get a new subscriber.

I now had two books to offer! My Undead Mother-in-law launched in August 2017. Click to get it!

That, plus more book conventions grew my mailing list to 1000 subscribers by 2018. It became too unwieldy for Yahoo and I got a free Mailchimp membership, good to 2000 subscribers.

SciFi Fuel Paranormal Privateers
The cover of my third novel Paranormal Privateers. Click to get yours.
Secret Supers audiobook cover
Secret Supers audiobook

Paranormal Privateers launched in 2018. You can get your copy here.

Secret Supers launched in 2019. Grab yours by clicking now.

COVID-19 hit in 2020 and I only had two events.

My newsletter list was kind of stuck at 1,500. What was I to do?

Oops! My SciFi latest science news What's New Science
Oops cover final medium

I kept writing and published Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse in 2020.

Villain's Vacation cover What is it like? Get Your Free Short Story
Villain’s Vacation cover

My second disabled superhero book also published in 2020, Villain’s Vacation.

But what about my newsletter? What should I do?

Get Your Free Short Story – My Newsletter in 2021

To continue to promote my books and my list, I tried the following in 2021, based upon advice from Travis Bach, author and husband of Rachel Aaron, an author we like. He suggested we try these promotions:

  • Bookbub
  • FreeDiscountedBooks
  • Awesome Gang
  • Books Butterfly
  • FKBT
  • Booksends
  • Book Butterfly
  • E-Reader News Today (Regular)
  • Bknights (through Fiverr)
  • Alignable newspaper ad
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I didn’t find these brought in sales equal to the expenses.

Here is the growth in the newsletter to this point:

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I also published Zombie Detective, a book set between Zombie Turkeys and My Undead Mother-in-law.

Gospel Medley Writer's Block: My Experience Get Your Free Short Story
The Gospel Medley cover. Click to get

Then in 2022 I published my first non-fiction book, The Gospel Medley under a different name, for a different genre. Here’s the blurb:

Are you curious about Jesus Christ? Do you struggle to understand the Bible? The Gospel Medley includes the four Gospels in a single narrative, faithfully pulling the text from the World English Bible. You are now able to read all the gospel as a single, easy-to-read story.

Each Gospel describes Jesus’s life from a different point of view with different details and insights. The Gospel Medley combines every word into a single perspective with all details and events arranged chronologically.

Unlike other harmonies, The Gospel Medley doesn’t put the four gospels in columns or rows. Instead, the text is integrated word by word into a smoothly flowing narrative. Further, each paragraph references the four gospels so you can read the original citations. You also get footnotes of all the quotes from the Old Testament, giving you the context of Jesus’s words.

For a unique perspective of the four gospels, read ‘The Gospel Medley’ today.

The Gospel Medley

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I then segmented my list by responsiveness (one to 5 stars) and got these results to date:

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Around this time, 2023, I began using StoryOrigin ($100/year) to promote my newsletter. It slowly grew my newsletter and response rate.

Secret Supers in Space

I published my 9th book in 2023, Secret Supers in Space.

Mailchimp increased its price from free to $30 per month to $45 now. I’m willing to switch if I can find something that saves me money.

I pruned my list of 400+ inactive subscribers in 2024.

Disabled Superheroes

Then I published my most recent non-fiction book, The Revelation Devotional.

The Book of Revelation is mysterious to many, but if you use this daily devotional, you can understand it like never before.

Each day you’ll have one small verse to read and reflect upon. You will see connections and meanings you’ve never seen before.

Author Jeffry Smith asks provocative questions to help you think about each portion of scripture. He also supplies useful cross-references which give further insight to the scripture.

Begin your journey of inspiration now, with the Revelation Devotional.

Tell Me What you Think of my Newsletter Short Story!

Let me know what you think by clicking here or emailing me at [email protected]. As always, everyone who responds with a comment or email will get a free book from me.

You can get an autographed copy of Oops! directly from me by clicking here. Free shipping and I pay the sales tax.

Or you can get it on Amazon for .99 (from 5/19 to 5/26) or 12.95. ($2.99 if you get it another time.)

If you want to keep track of all my blog posts and get free books you can subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here. You also get all my audiobooks for free!

Psst! Audible lets you listen free to my books. Click here to find out how.

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Get Your Free Laughter with Zombie Turkeys–2 Days Only

Get Your Free Laughter with Zombie Turkeys–2 Days Only. That’s today and tomorrow on Amazon and Story Origin, April 7th! That’s just 48 hours, so quickly click here to get Zombie Turkeys. The free book offer ends on Thursday April 8th, eclipse day.

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Get your Zombie Turkeys here. You get a bushel of laughter with each book.

I’m author Andy Zach and I’ve got another book on sale as well! It’s my most recent book, Zombie Detective. This one is 67% off its Kindle price. It’s on sale below.

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Eclipse from space. Click for Zombie Turkeys.

Why is my Zombie Turkeys book free?

Tomorrow is an eclipse in my hometown of Cleveland! Why not?

Let me tell you about Zombie Turkeys:

Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em—they come back stronger. The undead plague of poultry spreads uncontrollably, rocking the whole country. As Sam tracks down the zombie turkeys and how to eradicate them, his editor, Lisa Kambacher, nags him to turn his stories and expenses in on time. During their years of working together, Lisa has mellowed into an irascible pinchpenny. Lisa snipes at Sam for plebeian writing but uses her intelligence to pursue the lucrative carnivorous turkey story.

Sam and Lisa ricochet across the landscape, tracking turkeys and fleeing the bloodthirsty hordes. Careening from shell-shocked grocery store owners fighting turkeys crawling out of refrigerators to machine-gunning turkey farmers to secret militia, Sam and Lisa doggedly report.

Throughout the turkey apocalypse, they dare ravaged cities, plow knee-deep in gore and corpses, and upload streams of zombie turkey video news to the world. With paranoid militias clashing with the federal government and unkillable turkeys, Sam and Lisa doubt their ability to survive.

Sam and Lisa have no superpowers. If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not read Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to find out what happens.

Zombie Turkeys

Get Your Free Laughter – A Reader’s Review of Zombie Turkeys

This book was a crazy ride.

Tony Fecteau

1,256 reviews

5 followers

January 5, 2024

This book was a crazy ride. Imaging if you will a flock of turkeys which are unstoppable! Of course, they can be stopped if you know the secret way to kill a zombie turkey. The various scenes had me laughing. The scene with Obama and family was quite entertaining. The various traps and way to kill the turkeys had my imagination going. A fun read.

Get Your Free Laughter with Zombie Turkeys

Readers’ reviews from Audible:

You won’t look at turkeys the same way as before

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OK this was funny, I actually started with volume 2 in this series (My undead mother in law) and all the things that I was missing in the story in the one I started are explained here, its brilliant and very funny XD, one thing that I love about this series, the people reading the book (there’s more than one ^__^) they actually sound like they’re having fun, and that’s twice the fun for us that are listening to the audiobook.

Hilarious

I’ve never laughed so much listening to a zombie story before…but then again I’ve never listened to a book about zombie turkeys before either. Hilariously written and actually has some great characters too. Many cameos as well. Definitely an awesome time listening to this one. Hoping for a sequel!

Funny

Get Your Free Copy of Zombie Turkeys

What added to the Zombie Turkey situation was the author took the reader through the different towns of Illinois by a reporter working on his big story added great humor to the saga. The reader has to wonder how Mr Zach dreams up these crazy stories but they all seem to work.

Dumb…silly…juvenile…couldn’t put it down

Comfort food for that juvenile part of you that never quite outgrew your comic books. Just forget that it’s preposterous (after all, you were already warned by the title; what did you expect?), and go with the flow…

Zombie Turkeys

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it’s part outrageously funny, bizarre and compelling. A very good and entertaining and riveting story.

Zombie Turkeys 🦃

This was an amazing story. It was very entertaining with many LOL moments. I’m definitely hooked. Can’t wait to listen to the next one.

Deliciously silly book!

What a deliciously silly book! If you love zombies and comedy, this zombiedy story is for you. The whole premise of zombie turkeys is just so ludicrous it makes the whole tale funny, no matter how seriously the characters take their roles. Story is suitable for the whole family. Very little blood & guts, no swearing, sweet, innocent romance.

Dark Humor

This dark comedy combines action and humor set mostly against the back drop of rural Indiana. Sam and his editor Lisa run a small town newspaper, 

Get your free copy of Zombie Turkeys here!

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Your Thirteenth Literary Gift Andy Zach Newsletter Zombie Detective Audiobook
Audiobook cover – click to listen.

Let me know what you think by clicking here or emailing me at [email protected]. As always, everyone who responds with a comment or email will get a free book from me.

You can get an autographed copy of Zombie Turkeys and/or Zombie Detective directly from me by clicking here. Free shipping and I pay the sales tax.

Or you can get Zombie Detective on Amazon for .99 or 12.95. ($2.99 if you don’t get it right away.)

If you want to keep track of all my blog posts and get free books you can subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here. You also get all my audiobooks for free!

Psst! Audible lets you listen free to my books. Click here to find out how.

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Disabled Superheroes and a Villain on Vacation!

Disabled Superheroes and a Villain on Vacation! But why go on vacation with a villain? You’ll find out when you read Villain’s Vacation! It is on sale starting today, March 3rd! But just for seven days, so quickly click here to get Villain’s Vacation. By ‘seven days’ I mean the 67% off sale ends on Sunday March 10th at 2 am PDT.

Villain's Vacation cover What is it like?
Villain’s Vacation cover

But first, let me tell you about Villain’s Vacation.

Four disabled seventh-graders with superpowers take a vacation at Coaster World. They need a break from fighting criminals. Ever since the beginning of the school year when they acquired their unusual abilities, they’ve been training and using those powers to fight crime in their town.

Little do they know the arch-villain they recently defeated also loves coasters and is vacationing at Coaster World. Worse, the villain wants revenge. Nothing less than turning these teens to a life of crime will satisfy.

Can Jeremy, Dan, Kayla, and Aubrey withstand the villain’s attacks? Or will they become Super Villains?

Villain’s Vacation book cover

Villain’s Vacation – Table of Contents

Here’s the Table of Contents from the book. I’ve added the chapter icons too. They were created by my illustrator Sean “Fuzzy” Flanagan.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Dancer 3

Disabled Superheroes What Do Readers Think
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Chapter 2 – Chipmunk 11

Disabled Superheroes
Disabled Superheroes

Chap. 3 – The Last Day of School 24

Chapter 4 – Coaster World   31

Villain's Vacation Disabled Superheroes
Disabled Superheroes

Chap. 5 – Tracking 35

Chapter 6 – On the Lake   42

Your Seventh Literary Gift Disabled Superheroes
Robotic arm

Chapter 7 – Revelation   53

What is novel Writing Like
Jeremy is captured by a robot in Villain’s Vacation

Chap. 8 – Hotel 66

Writer's Block: My Experience
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Chapter 9 – Teamwork 76

Chap. 10 – Super Villains 82

Chapter 11 – Chase   93

Chapter 12 – Villain   102

Epilogue – Prison   104

Disabled Superheroes – A Review of Villain’s Vacation

5.0 out of 5 stars 

Secret Supers are back for another adventure!

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2022

In this sequel to Secret Supers, Jeremy has been experimenting on his hamster. As a result, Dancer has learned how to read, and is reading everything he can to learn about the human world. When Jeremy discovers this, he gets Dancer one of his old cell phones so Dancer can text the group.

As for the superhero business, the group needs some downtime and goes on vacation to Coaster World. What they don’t realize is that the villain they defeated also loves roller coasters and wants revenge against the Secret Supers.

Will the Secret Supers be able to defeat the villain and enjoy their vacation, or are their crime-fighting days numbered?

This was a fun sequel to Secret Supers. Not only did we have Andy Zach as a character in the book, as though the events were true and actually happened, but I loved the inclusion of a Super-Hamster helping out Jeremy and his friends. In this battle against the villain, the Secret Supers struggle, as the villain seems to have figured out how to neutralize their powers, and they not only have to call in support but also reveal themselves to some non-Supers.

The action was well-paced throughout, and the mystery of the identity of the villain was well-done. While I had suspicions, I wasn’t sure before the reveal, which was nice. If you enjoyed Secret Supers, I feel confident that you will also enjoy Villain’s Vacation.

For this book, I listened to the audiobook, which was narrated by Michael Stafford. This was a different narrator from The Secret Supers, which was a little odd to my ears at first, but I think that was only because I had listened to Secret Supers so recently. Stafford gave a wonderful performance, and I would certainly listen to this audiobook again.

Jennifer C.

My New Book on Pre-Sale

Are you ready for my newest book on pre-sale for $5.99? It’s my second non-fiction book. I hope you read non-fiction.

Here you go, The Book of Revelation Devotional. Get yours before the sale ends on March 31st.

Disabled Superheroes
The Revelation Devotional. Click to get

The Book of Revelation is mysterious to many, but if you use this daily devotional, you can understand it like never before.

Each day you’ll have one small verse to read and reflect upon. You will see connections and meanings you’ve never seen before.

Author Jeffry Smith asks provocative questions to help you think about each portion of scripture. He also supplies useful cross-references which give further insight to the scripture.

Begin your journey of inspiration now, with the Revelation Devotional.

The Book of Revelation Devotional

Are you too impatient to wait? Do you want a paperback copy? I’ll send you one BEFORE the book launch. Just click here!

Tell Me What you Think of Disabled Superheroes!

Let me know what you think by clicking here or emailing me at [email protected]. As always, everyone who responds with a comment or email will get a free book from me.

You can get an autographed copy of Villain’s Vacation and/or the Book of Revelation Devotional directly from me by clicking here. Free shipping and I pay the sales tax.

Or you can get Villain’s Vacation on Amazon for .99 or $7.95. ($2.99 for the ebook, if you don’t get it right away.)

If you want to keep track of all my blog posts and get free books you can subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here. You also get all my audiobooks for free!

Psst! Audible lets you listen free to my books. Click here to find out how.