About six months ago, I launched myself into the “how the hell do you market an indie book” world and found myself somewhere I’d never been. All the advice says, “use social media” with a confusing reference to FB, Twitter, blogs, Pinterest, websites, etc. Being clueless, I launched off into all these worlds, but very few remain in my world today.
One of the few that survived my “shake and bake” social media learning curve was this blog and Twitter. Prior to publishing, I never even looked at Twitter. It seemed confusing and I couldn’t even work out how to use it. Someone else started an account for me and, when she left, I took over. None of it made any sense to me and I immediately unfollowed most of the people she’d added and began a discovery run.
Wandering through all the weird names and some of the most awesome pictures I’ve ever seen, I hunted down my brethren horror fans and sure enough I found thousands of you! I looked at your profiles, I checked out your pictures, I explored your tweets and thought, these are my kinda people! I love horror and sci-fi, but almost no one I’ve ever known liked these genres as much as me. I figured I was immature for my age and kept my addiction to myself!
Twitter quickly became my all-time favourite social media! I met awesome people like @promotehorror and he became my guide into this mad world of Twitter horror. Today I chat with all sorts of people and more every day. Everyone is always so warm, welcoming and supportive, I don’t know how to thank them all.
This is my blog to say to my Twitter family,
“Hey, you’re all AMAZING and THANK YOU for being you!“