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What about social media marketing?

and why do we do it? Social media marketing is nothing new. Authors have been using it for years. I personally have been marketing my work on social media since the early 2000s because it was the only thing we could do and feel successful. Trad pub was still king at that time and SM was still very new. Today, by the same token, it has become so popular and to be honest, overused, that most folks don’t like to even talk about social media marketing. Marketers ruin it for all of us, so says Gary V and I honestly
Blog: 970th post!

and where do I go from here? I have been blogging on this site for a very long time. I have been writing for a long time too, with a few hiatuses in between. Are you a blog lover as I am? Do you blog too? I would love to see yours. Drop a comment and link to yours below. As for me, I am not certain what I will do when I reach 1000 blog posts, and that may well happen sometime in the next year or so. I never thought of an end game. But yall, all good
What’s on my Kindle?

and which ones are unread yet! So, happy Sunday, yes, I am late with my blog post. I apologize, but I have had the absolute worst case of bronchitis and upper respiratory stuff that I have had in a long while. I was tested for Covid, Flu, and everything in between, and it was none of those. Just a good old-fashioned chest cold. Yep. They still exist, folks. And thanks to that, I am way behind on everything, newsletter, podcast, and blog posts. Not to mention my writing for May. Oh boy. Is that ever a touchy subject. I hope
Writing in Spring

and how hard that can be sometimes… Welcome to another one of my musings. I have been struggling so hard of late to get my writing done. I just cannot focus long enough to get anything down. Let me explain. This has been going on since I got a job a month ago. I just sort of had to set everything aside and create an entire new routine for myself. I was too tired at the end of the day to do anything, not even cook. Then last week, my darling hubby had a heart attack. Talk about everything coming
How will the Russia ie. Ukraine invasion affect books?

Russia. It’s what’s trending. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia-ukraine-news Good day, friends. I hope this finds you doing well. I am sitting here thinking how this Russian invasion is going to affect a lot of things pertaining to life in general and well, maybe books and the book industry specifically. There is a lot of talk going around about how the supply chain issues that the US is experiencing will get a lot worse. Gas prices, grocery prices, etc. As if that isn’t bad enough now, this invasion is likely going to cause things to tighten even more. Personally, I hope not. I am