Stop Googling Yourself

Hello, friends.

I haven’t been doing this for long.

By “this” I mean the whole professional writing thing. Sure, I’ve been writing for oh god let’s pretend it isn’t nearly 25 years but OK it’s nearly 25 years. But it was only this year that someone said “Hey let’s print your books for public consumption”. So, I’m new to it. That’s what I’m saying.

It’s very exciting at first to Google yourself. It’s all repostings of your Publishers Weekly notice. It’s your agent being excited about the sale. It...