From Author Rebecca Grabill
This Joyful Mess
2025 Update to “Saying Goodbye: Why I Broke Up With Instagram” Plus: What Social Media Can(not) do for Authors
I felt betrayed … and foolish. I was ready to be done with social media once and for all. And yet I still faced an expectation that I would be engaging, posting, sharing my life with the hope that all this cyber-standing-in-the-road-waving-myself would sell more books. If I just engaged more, posted more, changed my strategy and platforms and spent more time …
What Publishing Will Do For You
In Bird by Bird Anne Lamott describes publishing as the golden eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar, and she writes, "Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy."
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