If you like my books, I'm thrilled to accept your 5-star ratings with or without a reason because I'm hypocritical, not stupid.

Anyway, this is my once-a-month post which I expect to get absolutely no response.

Such is the world we live in.

I don't know.

I'll keep writing because it's something I enjoy. I'd just like a little feedback. Do my stories suck? Let me know, but at least tell me why. I've got a couple of 1-star ratings, but not a single word as to why.

I write multiple posts (trying desperately to be witty) and only my wife ever responds with so much as a like. No reposts, no comments, nothing.

Is it that my posts are so uninteresting? Or is it that the platforms figure I'm not monetizable enough to bother showing to anyone?

I've said multiple times that it looks like Facebook, Goodreads, and Bluesky have zero interest in promoting anything I have to say. I have dozens of followers and none of them ever respond to anything.

"The Lynx Who Came in From the Cold" And Urban Fantasy by P.D. Haggerty.

Meagan was surprised when an injured lynx stumbled into her campsite.

She took the animal home, meaning to call the authorities.

Then the cat asked her not to.

Available at www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCGMNS1Z

For independents, simply getting anyone to know you exist is the hardest problem. No one can read your books (and hopefully like them), if they don't know they (and you) exist. Details are in my profile but a link to my first Cozy Fantasy is: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCGMNS1Z

No, I don't believe it was really him. But whoever was pretending got the same treatment.

Incredibly good candy, as a matter of fact. Danielle handed me a piece while we were on a panel at Capclave. I had to go buy more from her after that. I believe the strategy is known as "the first taste is free."

I tried doing reviews on Goodreads. I promised to do a review of theirs if they'd do a review of mine. I got told I had to pay money or there was no way of knowing if their review would be good or not. Hint. Hint.

Our hometown convention is www.capclave.org
I'm almost certainly biased, but I think it's one of the best. Fan-oriented, Capclave (where reading is not extinct -- Our mascot is The dodo), is a relaxed, reader-oriented, weekend. Plus, totally unrelated, I have a table in the dealer's room. (9/27/24)

Just grabbed the bundle. Gayle and I have been reading your books since Young Wizards #1

Getting people to know you exist is the hardest problem. Once you solve that one you need to actually write stuff. Which is also the hardest problem.

You did not mishear. He's said for a while, he will call up the army to invade blue states and go door to door. He's pretty sure the red states will be happy to do the dirty work. When asked how he was going to make sure American citizens would not be caught up, he waved it away as unimportant.

The booster knocked me on my butt, but well worth it.