Another Short Note On Taking A Break From Social Media

I'm enjoying my break away from my social media engagements of choice. I've been more productive without the time suck of answering direct inquiries through multiple programs and my general flopping around hoping people will like me. I've been more peaceful without the broadside of folks' confessionals and desperate outreach to friends higher than my pay grade for help and absolution. I do miss the interconnected feeling, although those people that have e-mailed, we've had great conversations.

I mean, I have to go back to do this job, but I'm going to remember this feeling and work on finding something close to this that will work for weeks and months at a time.

One thing that would be helpful for me is for you to reorient any professional correspondence concerning CR or my writing in general to comicsreporter@gmail. I'm convinced I will no longer answer professional requests that come through texts, Facebook, twitter, direct messages and older e-mail addresses. Reviewing those correspondences, there's an element in about 3/4 of them of gaming the system and getting at me more directly than through e-mail, and by answering I encourage that.

In a related matter, I hope more of you will go back to adding direct outreach to media back to the mix of what you do to promote yourself. If not me, other people. Social media's great, but trust me in that even a person dedicated to restlessly searching on their end will frequently miss what you're trying to put out there. At the same time, I realize this isn't 2004; I can't put up a text link and send 7000 people to an article. But I do have a core readership and so do a lot of the other olds out there. I'd love to signal boost if you'll help me do so. In return, I'll be more responsive through that avenue and I'll try to revamp the site so that I can be a stronger partner in getting the word out when it's news.

I hope everyone's holidays are going well, however you're spending them. I went into a bookstore here in New Mexico (don't rob my home) with some really nice comics for sale in it, but they're not priced. The store owner says he'll price them at the register, which sounds miserable enough to me I'm not buying anything. I like knowing what things cost, and if that price is variable I know more frequently than not there will be a point in the haggling where I will have been asked to pay more than what that something is ultimately worth. For some reason that poisons it for me, no matter the end result.
 
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