For the interest of sanity.

Unfortunately in the realm of indie and self published authors, there isn't much ability to market books without taking advantage of social media and the group of friends and fans that comes with it. That is, unless you happen to have a load of cash at your disposal.

I try my best not to over saturate my feeds with promotions. In fact, I give away most of my poetry for free from my blog and update only about half to Facebook. So when I recommend one of my books to the friends I have on Goodreads like so many other authors have done to me in the past, I wouldn't expect to get an email from the good people over at that site telling me that I'm being accused of spamming.

I spend a fair amount of money on advertising, but, let's face it, that only goes so far when people have learned to ignore the right hand corner of their screen.

But I'm kind of taken aback that people I consider friends would report me to the powers that be over on Goodreads for a simple recommendation. I could see if I have done it over and over again, but it was one time.

So at any point, if you don't like what I do or who I am, please delete me. Don't keep me around for some future networking possibilities, or because I might be a fan of your work and you don't want to lose a future sale. And that goes for every other site. This idea of fake socializing and having a bunch of people on your friends list just for the sake of numbers is just silly. I have quite a few friends here, all of which I enjoy engaging with and reading their posts and book recommendations. If I'm friends with you it's because I think you're interesting or I find common ground with who you are or what you do. So if you don't feel the same way about me, there is a set of instructions that Goodreads provides that will enable you to make sure you never have to see me again.