Status Update

On my social media presence, that is. Social media is an essential for us Indy authors. It’s how we try to reach the public. For me, this has been a turbulent year.

Previously, I was hanging on with Twitter. I was active there for a long time, and had been able to prune my algorithms to exclude most of the nasty stuff. Fan groups like Dragon Age and comic fandom were still fun for me. However, when the name was changed to something ridiculous, and the owner announced he was going to scrape all our posts to sell for so-called “training of A.I.” that was unacceptable. In defense of my artistic rights, I had to delete my account.

Like many of us, I experimented with other social media. I was enjoying Counter Social, but that didn’t work out. So I’m still searching for places to reach other authors and readers.

Presently I’m becoming more involved with, Pinterest, Instagram and my Facebook author page. I’ve had these for a while, but they were more passive. I’m putting up more book covers on Pinterest, plus other interesting photos on Instagram, and posting more day-to-day author posts on the Facebook author page. I’m not completely easy with this, since Facebook and Instagram are both owned by Meta, and Meta’s record of corporate responsibility is questionable. But, it’s what I have for now.

I’m interested in Blue Sky and some of the other options, but haven’t explored them as yet. The one thing that has become clear (and probably should have been obvious all along) is that authors shouldn’t put all our eggs in one basket, as it were. We can be left scrambling (ha ha) when corporate situations change.

Anyway, if you’re on these platforms and we haven’t connected, I’d love to do that. Links are in my footer, below.

Have you read one of my books? Then it would be great for you to leave a review! Meanwhile, if you’d like to learn more about me and my work, check out my website, Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram.