Sunday morning musings.
This morning I woke up and wondered where all my people were at. I mused for a couple of hours and then spoke to one of my closest author friends about reaching out to readers, bloggers, anyone and everyone.
She shared a thought of hers. I have my Goodreads account and I don't blog on it very often.
"Why not?" she asked me.
I shook my head. "I have no idea."
"You may only reach four people, but those four people might be waiting to see what your upcoming release is, what you're working on right now or even that you ate a whole pack of Oreo's last night" (I totally didn't...just FYI)
I thought about what she said and about the fact that I don't share myself (or my crazy mind) with people very much. There's no real reason for my absence of communication except my lack of time. If I could add three (non-working) hours to my day I would... Okay I'll be honest, I would sleep. But if I could add six more (non-working) hours to my day, I would totally use some of that time to interact more, because I want to. I really do!
I published two years ago next month.
TWO YEARS!
That's a fair amount of time and while I have my street team on Facebook (Maria's Misfits) and I post on IG @mariamacdonaldbooks I'm not as active as I probably should be, and I rarely post on my author page or blog here in Goodreads, my newsletter is nowhere near regular and I'm thinking it's time to change all that.
So here's what I propose.
Once a week I am going to write a blog post in here (I'll probably bore you all but you'll have to take your chances) I will update you on anything, could be my upcoming work, could be a excerpt, could be rambling about my home life...If you read it, you'll have to take your chances ;-)
My promise to you though is that you will get something from me once a week, you can choose to start following my story or not. Totally up to you, if I ramble to myself, that's okay :-) I've never had a diary so it will be refreshing to see what all the fuss is about, however, if you do follow me and at some point I start writing the words
'Dear Diary,'
before my post, then please stop me, if that happens I'll need an intervention!
Much love
Maria <3
She shared a thought of hers. I have my Goodreads account and I don't blog on it very often.
"Why not?" she asked me.
I shook my head. "I have no idea."
"You may only reach four people, but those four people might be waiting to see what your upcoming release is, what you're working on right now or even that you ate a whole pack of Oreo's last night" (I totally didn't...just FYI)
I thought about what she said and about the fact that I don't share myself (or my crazy mind) with people very much. There's no real reason for my absence of communication except my lack of time. If I could add three (non-working) hours to my day I would... Okay I'll be honest, I would sleep. But if I could add six more (non-working) hours to my day, I would totally use some of that time to interact more, because I want to. I really do!
I published two years ago next month.
TWO YEARS!
That's a fair amount of time and while I have my street team on Facebook (Maria's Misfits) and I post on IG @mariamacdonaldbooks I'm not as active as I probably should be, and I rarely post on my author page or blog here in Goodreads, my newsletter is nowhere near regular and I'm thinking it's time to change all that.
So here's what I propose.
Once a week I am going to write a blog post in here (I'll probably bore you all but you'll have to take your chances) I will update you on anything, could be my upcoming work, could be a excerpt, could be rambling about my home life...If you read it, you'll have to take your chances ;-)
My promise to you though is that you will get something from me once a week, you can choose to start following my story or not. Totally up to you, if I ramble to myself, that's okay :-) I've never had a diary so it will be refreshing to see what all the fuss is about, however, if you do follow me and at some point I start writing the words
'Dear Diary,'
before my post, then please stop me, if that happens I'll need an intervention!
Much love
Maria <3
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