Aaron Stewart-AhnDon’t think we really reckoned with how we all became so dependent on a single site for promotion of our work because the companies that produce & distribute it have become so bad at it.
Remember a few years ago overhearing in a restaurant some people in publishing discussing how many followers on social media a potential author had as much as their manuscript and yeah, we all just made this part of our unpaid work, I know that’s part of why it’s so hard to quit a site gone to hell.
Deb Chachra@somebadideas Yeah. My book is coming out next year, and it has definitely occurred to me that I could take the willful destruction of the bird site quite personally (not to mention professionally). On the plus side, I also have a newsletter with a subscriber base that I can reasonably presume is interested in my ideas and work.
@debcha and it’s good to be able to wrest some personal control of getting word out yourself!