Feedback Frustration

When I picked up the pen and started writing, I was thrilled at the amount of feedback I was receiving.  At the time, I wasn’t even looking for it.  Now that I have several stories and books out, I expected to see more reviews.  I still receive support on social media with the likes, retweets and shares, and yeah I still get some of the sickos who want me to help them play out their  fantasies, but I noticed most recently that while I get email from some of my closer friends, I am not seeing the feedback on the web site or amazon sites. I am curious as to what may have happened.  I thought initially it was just timing, but then I wondered if it was the changing climate here in the US.  The government has come under so much scrutiny about cyber and citizens being watched, I got paranoid and thought readers were not commenting because they were scared as well. I traveled through Europe last year to promote my books and meet a couple of long time friends and was thrilled at the turnout.  Scared as hell to go out in public but Europe is not...