How to stay Updated
If you're on Facebook, you've probably realized that the newsfeed shows mainly ads and pages you don't follow. It is growing increasingly harder to update my existing followers there because they want us to pay hundreds of dollars a month to share a couple of links a month, and also run ads until we're broke. Ads that won't even reach our readers, let alone readers in our genre, because of changes they made to how ads target people.
So far, the Facebook groups aren't a problem. You can join my group, change your notification settings to "all", and you can also pin the group to your shortcuts to make it easier to find.
Admittedly, it's hard to focus on writing when there is all this marketing I have to do on so many social media platforms. It's one reason I don't have Tiktok, and I just keep Instagram focused on sales, updates, new releases.
Currently, the best way to follow updates and receive notifications is my newsletter. SIGN UP, check your inbox for an email and then confirm your subscription, and periodically look in spam folders in case they wind up there. (In gmail, spam folders are Social/Promotions)
I'm debating on opening up a Discord. It's not like Facebook, but I really don't want that platform to ruin the connection I have with readers. But going elsewhere also means more work. I honestly miss when I first began publishing in 2011. Facebook was basically the only social media site, all my followers saw my posts and newsfeeds weren't clogged up with junk. I could focus on writing, and even release days were less stressful because I wasn't designing a bunch of marketing images and having to post them all over the internet. lol
Anyhow, you can go to my About Me page to see a list of places I'm located (some more active than others). But just a reminder that at the moment, the newsletter is the best source of information.
I sent out a newsletter today, so everyone should have it by this evening. If it's not in your inbox, always check your junk/spam/social/promotions. I do this every single time I check email simply because you can't trust important stuff won't go there, and those folders only hold onto emails for a short time before they're purged.
I hope you're excited for 2027!
