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Friday Five: Q&A with ‘Mailed It!’ authors Ashley Budd and Dayana Kibilds

Two marketing pros share their wisdom for writers.

Today’s Friday Five deviates from our usual fare — Q&As with literary types — to introduce two outstanding marketers and recent co-authors who can help all of us who struggle to promote our writing. Their tool is nothing mysterious; it’s that workhorse of modern communication, email.

Ashley Budd and Dayana “Day” Kibilds are the authors of the new book Mailed It!: A Guide to Crafting Emails That Build Relationships and Get Results.

Windows on the World

This morning, on the twenty-third anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I reflected on my one and only visit to Windows on the World, the restaurant located at the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Both towers of the WTC, as we now know, collapsed after the planes crashed into them on that terrible day.