I deactivate my Facebook author page and just have my profile with public posts here is why!
I finally got sick and tired of all the messages honestly. I wasn’t really growing on Facebook either not like Bluesky, X and other platforms. Ever since I had that page and turned on messages and promoted my book dozens of messages from people asking me to pay them to promote my book. They tried to sell me their awful video trailers and there were even fake authors who would message me about their marketers. Also the facebook promo groups were so full of scammers I got sick and tired of their obvious attempts to get clients for their services like if you interacted in anyway message.
It got annoying and with 26 titles and more on the way I didn’t want to be bothered everytime I promote my new books. Alot of them were from third world countries and their spelling was awful. Some of them tried to even be friends once I told them no to services. My last straw was someone stealing the identity of a best selling author who kept pushing me to hire their ads person. Writing is not a job for me it is a hobby, and I have a day job so I am not worried about sales. These so called marketers act like being an author means I’m rolling in the dough not the case. Some of us even with a job are broke and struggling. Also, kept hearin all these horror stories about what happened when you use one of their services. Authors being scammed out of thousands some of these idiots wanted to charge fucking 100 for trailers. 400 for marketing services like no some of us are barely making even on the books we published. I only pay for cover art and editing I cannot afford anything else. I’m more focused on rent, bills, and getting food. This economy is trash yet these idiots expect us to pay for their help when they can’t even speak english. Get lost and lets not even start on the fucking idiots trying to get us to pay for reviews that is against Amazons TOS and the author can get their account banned. So many scammers it is not funny. All them have stolen photos, if you trace some of the photos they are from other people not themselves. They have multiple profiles and don’t understand first and last names. I’ll do individual articles on each of them since I always screen shot my interactions with them. Also going into 2025 I wanted less stress and having a page and a profile is too much work.
I’ve got more books coming on the way and also added another benefit for Kofi members as well 50% off my shop for the 5 and 10 dollar tier. I also have a discord server listed at the back of my books 18 plus due to adult content there. I even have a channel where I list convos with scammers. They are on X and Blusky as well but more manageable then facebook where they were swarming like crazy. 2024 I published 3 books and a boxed set so hope to do more in 2025!
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