Hello
All!
It's
going to be a busy Spring between book fairs, podcasts, and getting
good and dirty in the garden - “I'll be planting soon....” a la
Sophia Petrillo.
Between
our upcoming Mount Holly Book Fair April 29, HorrorAddicts.net
delectables, ten year anniversary hi jinks at I Think, Therefore I
Review, and you know, life, sometimes a writer just forgets to blog.
(Because every fricking thing you do has to come with visual media or its trash right? Word.)
Shameless
plugs aside, there are those the increasingly turbulent and wish I
didn't have to use it Facebook dramas and the murky navigation of the
crowded tidewaters on Twitter. You're either a noise maker, consumer
commentor, or a constant content maker. It's all self promotion at
its finest aka marketing. Authors must do it. You can't not do it
when every publisher wants to see your brand, every magazine expects
retweets, and ever link needs a #hashtag. It's become standard,
normal, spitting in the internet wind insanity. Who has time for any
long form click bait when we do all the little unnecessary
necessaries 24/7?
In
trying to meet my latest April deadlines, I realized it was time to
check on my own blog, as a stagnant post from a few months ago ( We
fudge and front for everyone too when it has actually been six
months!) would be viewed quite negatively by literary peers,
publishers, agents, or anyone you want to find you. Even if that post
proves you are on the book tour circuit, active in freelance, and
involved with your writerly peers.
For
writers trying to make it in this book business, it isn't enough that
you are here with blogs and social media, easily found with contact
information for when you want them to notice your actual writing. You
have to be instant, the latest, rising with your #amwriting – which
I still don't know if it is meant to be 'I am writing' or 'A.M.
Writing' but whatevs – before posting a picture of your go to
coffee and literary lunch on Facebook, which has to be shared on each
of your book pages, your profile, all the book groups, and tagged
with all your writerly friends who will totally
**get** the struggle. It was all probably conveniently shared from
Instagram, too.
Maybe
the trending topics, food photos, challenges, or contests lead to a
great inspirational nuggets and your next blog post – guilty as
charged I suppose – but all the social media chasing, promotion,
and forgetting to blog, pinterest, Google +, and who the heck knows
what else only leads me back to one thing every single time:
When
in the heck are writers supposed to actually write?
Amirite?!
Oops,
I can't end there, every post has to have all the big links, right?!
So Be sure to
SEE
me at the Mount Holly Book Fair April 29!
HEAR
me during the latest HorrorAddicts.net podcast season!
READ
me at I Think, Therefore I Review, or someday whenever I publish some
fiction again, whenever the heck that me be.
Toodle
Loo until my next two times a day post – which translates to eight
months in writer time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯