In a 2016 blog post, I wrote : “I’m not totally sure, but I think Ernest Hemingway would consider himself fortunate for dying before it became a requirement for every author to have a website, and to blog, and to post regularly on social media sites like Facebook.
Returning to fiction writing (after twenty years away) has been quite an eye-opener. You must have a website, they said. An agent won’t even glance at your manuscript if you don’t have a website. Oh, and way before anyone accepts your book for publication, you’ll need to build an audience by blogging on the website, and posting on social media.“
What Authors Must Do
The blog was titled I. Need. To. Do. What? Today, I have an update on how it’s all working out for me. Selected snippets from the original blog are below in italics. The original blog in December 2016 started with the thrill over a new iphone after I finally ditched my well-worn flip-top phone (does anyone even remember what those looked like?) Continue reading “What Authors Must Do in 2018 (Besides Writing)”
Most weeks I write this blog from my viewpoint as an author — or a reader. But as I say in my 
If and/or when you read that blog, you will see one subhead says: “Mom, No-one Reads Your Blog.” If you read that section, you will probably see that I meant is as a humorous, self-deprecating comment. But, as my son pointed out to me: “Mom, it makes me sound like a jerk.”