Red Room Where the Writers Are

Email is one of the fastest and easiest ways to tell your family, friends, colleagues, and extended network about what's new with you and your writing.

We know you're busy, so we've drafted several sample emails to help you promote your career and tell people about your new online home at redroom.com:

Invite a Friend to Join You in the Red Room (Semi-Formal)
Invite a Friend to Visit Your New Online Home (Informal)
Tell a Friend to Check Out redroom.com (Extremely Informal)
Invite a Fellow Author to Join redroom.com

Of course, a personal greeting from you would help, so feel free to adapt these letters as you see fit. (You can also print this page to use as talking points for communicating with your colleagues at meetings or gatherings.)

If you're not sure who to send your email to, think about who would like to know about what's new with you and your writing. How about your...

• Family
• Book clubs
• Writing groups or associations
• Professional contacts including coworkers, agents, publishers, editors, and more
• Readers and fans
• Classmates (or former classmates)
• Communities of faith
• Neighbors
• Unions
• Sports buddies, including teammates and fellow fans
• Political parties
• Your music friends, band members, or even fellow groupies
• Parents' or singles' groups
• Fellow volunteers (at your local library, museum, homeless shelter, garden, or your favorite cause)
• Online friends

Since each person on this list has a full list of contacts of their own, you have a large network at your disposal—you just have to tap into it.

INVITE A FRIEND TO JOIN YOU IN THE RED ROOM (SEMI-FORMAL)

Subject: Come Join Me in the Red Room

Hi there,

I would love for you to visit me at my new online home, redroom.com. You can read about my books and enjoy multimedia content I've created (such as blogs, photos, audio, and video). You can see my page at:
{insert link to your Red Room page}

I would love to read your comments about my work and hear about what you are up to! Don't worry- you won't have to pay anything at all, ever. And once the site it profitable, Red Room will donate money directly to wonderful nonprofit organizations every time I receive a visitor!

What is the Red Room? It's a social networking website dedicated to connecting authors, readers, and the literary community at large. Hundreds of successful authors—including Khaled Hosseini, Susan Orlean, Salman Rushdie, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, Terry McMillan, Alice Hoffman, and James Patterson—have joined the online community, and I would love for you to be part of it, too.

I hope that you will stop by my new online home. See you in the Red Room!

INVITE A FRIEND TO VISIT YOUR NEW ONLINE HOME (INFORMAL)

Subject: Quick Update - I'm in the Red Room!

I would love for you to visit me at my new online home, redroom.com. You can read about my books and enjoy multimedia content I've created such as blogs, photos, audio, and video.

Here's why you should check it out:

• Red Room is a social networking website dedicated to connecting authors, readers, and the literary community at large.
• Hundreds of successful authors—including Khaled Hosseini, Susan Orlean, Salman Rushdie, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, Terry McMillan, Alice Hoffman, and James Patterson—have joined this online community, and I would love for you to be part of it, too.
• It's free. Plus, once the site is profitable, Red Room will donate money directly to wonderful nonprofit organizations every time I receive a visitor!

I hope that you will stop by my new online home here:
{insert link to your Red Room page}

I would love to read your comments about my work and hear about what you are up to!

TELL A FRIEND TO CHECK OUT REDROOM.COM (EXTREMELY INFORMAL)

Subject: Check Out redroom.com

Hey,

Have you heard about Red Room yet? Apparently it's the new "literary MySpace." My favorite part is the blog page where you can read blogs from all sorts of people—even Amy Tan is blogging.

My page is here:
{insert link to your Red Room page}

Check it out, and let me know what you think.

INVITE A FELLOW AUTHOR TO JOIN REDROOM.COM

Subject: An Invitation to Join redroom.com - Exclusive Online Writers Community

As a writer, I thought you may be interested in knowing about an online community for writers and readers that I'm part of, called redroom.com. I am using Red Room as a tool to both promote my career, and connect with writers, literary professionals, and readers.

Come check out my page and see what you think:
{insert link to your Red Room page}

What is the Red Room?
Red Room is an exclusive social networking website dedicated to connecting authors, readers, and the literary community at large. Hundreds of successful authors—including Khaled Hosseini, Susan Orlean, Salman Rushdie, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, Terry McMillan, Alice Hoffman, and James Patterson—have joined the online community at redroom.com.

Why Join the Red Room?
Here are some of the reasons I think you should join:

• The Red Room offers authors—both bestsellers and rising stars—free, elegant online homes to promote and express themselves through multimedia content such as blogs, photos, audio, and video.
• Red Room helps you build and maintain relationships with your readers and colleagues.
• You'll find new readers in our online community whom you otherwise would've missed. Thousands of registered members are buying their books and commenting on their Red Room Author Pages.
• Any author can be a superstar on redroom.com through active participation.
• Once the site is profitable, Red Room will donate money directly to your favorite nonprofit organizations every time your Author Page receives a visitor.

How Do I Apply?
Join redroom.com now and follow the instructions about applying to become a Red Room author. (There's a place for you to indicate that I referred you on the application.)

I hope that you will join me so we can enjoy the Red Room community and promote our writing careers together!

Best wishes,

{Your name here}