Wow. From a newsletter written by people who help authors (mostly non-fiction) market their books: "We spent over $50,000 on Instagram Influencers last year and it resulted in (I'm not kidding) less than 50 books sold."#Writing #WritingCommunity
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@madgeface Check out https://getshelflife.com/ His focus is on non-fiction, and mostly business-related stuff, but he has the occasional tip/insight that applies to fiction, and probably to technical books too.
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@alan Subscribed. Well, to your toots, anyway.
@madgeface Everything eventually winds up on either my nerd/rant blog or my artist/writer blog anyway, so in defiance of all marketing wisdom I just let people get those through RSS (although often delayed, there has to be some perk for subscribing!)
I use perk loosely.
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@madgeface Everything eventually winds up on either my nerd/rant blog or my artist/writer blog anyway, so in defiance of all marketing wisdom I just let people get those through RSS (although often delayed, there has to be some perk for subscribing!)
I use perk loosely.
@alan I 'd like to be the rational me who checked feedly daily in 2018ish and then again in the (can't believe I'm typing this) early 20s when I tried to make it a personal think again but it didn't work out. I'll try again, eventually.
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@alan I 'd like to be the rational me who checked feedly daily in 2018ish and then again in the (can't believe I'm typing this) early 20s when I tried to make it a personal think again but it didn't work out. I'll try again, eventually.
@madgeface I just add the feeds to my email client (Thunderbird). My understanding is that the equivalent from Microsoft supports this as well, and I saw some convoluted way to do it in GMail.
I have Tbird set up with a unified folder of tagged and unread messages, so I just pick them off like I do with newsletters. Less than 20 in all, so it's manageable (and when it isn't, I go to the feed's folder and "mark all as read"... I'm a heretic.)
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@madgeface I just add the feeds to my email client (Thunderbird). My understanding is that the equivalent from Microsoft supports this as well, and I saw some convoluted way to do it in GMail.
I have Tbird set up with a unified folder of tagged and unread messages, so I just pick them off like I do with newsletters. Less than 20 in all, so it's manageable (and when it isn't, I go to the feed's folder and "mark all as read"... I'm a heretic.)
@alan While you're a heretic there, I've drawn my skirts up (because somehow there are multiple skirts) as if to flee at the mention of Microsoft, having recently done battle with Word and lost. I would rather not cross the streams like that. Although I'm now actually and IRL subscribed to your Substack.
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@alan While you're a heretic there, I've drawn my skirts up (because somehow there are multiple skirts) as if to flee at the mention of Microsoft, having recently done battle with Word and lost. I would rather not cross the streams like that. Although I'm now actually and IRL subscribed to your Substack.
@madgeface I have a detailed plan to swap Windows out for Linux in the near future. I've been neglecting Substack a bit, as they seem to be burying people who don't charge for subscriptions, thus limiting the network effects that had attracted me to the platform.
