Running the Numbers

This post originally appeared at Fighting Monkey Press for the Hart Compound Blog Tour.

As quickly as I discovered them, I realized that I do not support those follow-me-I’ll-follow-you-back cabals that exist among authors online.

The idea behind them is fine: we’re all independent authors, and we need the support of like-minded folks. However, from what I’ve seen, these groups don’t add much support; they just add numbers.

With the availability of analytics tools online, numbers have become the...