Dear Reader,
I'm having one of those days where I feel like
I'm failing you as an author. Not with the writing (that's actually going well right now ~ knocks on wood) but in the other ways that are just as important.
I just updated my Facebook page and it's brought home how much long it's been since I did so. All those kind comments about the Princes and questions about when the next book is coming out waited there for me for far too long. I'm sure the people who left them there feel taken for granted and that kills me.
It means the world when readers leave comments like that. And it makes me feel lower than dirt that it takes me so long to answer them.
Truth is I struggle with staying in touch online.
(All my friends and family who read this newsletter just started nodding their heads.)
Part of it is I've been writing my guts out. But most of it is when I go online to give an update, I overthink it.
Without a couple of thousand words, multiple revisions, and an editor to look it over first, I worry that what I have to say won't be witty enough, interesting enough, or capture how flattered I am that anyone is writing to me at all anywhere near enough.
So I put it off. I slink out the digital back door and pretend I don't see the emails and Facebook notifications piling up until eventually I answer all of them in a flurry of guilt and
self-loathing.
To everyone who have been waiting on emails or comments from me for way too long, I'm
sorry.
It's not you, it's me might be cliche but in this case it's also very much
true.
Hi, I'm the problem. It's me.
I promise I'm going to do better going forward. I've made an action plan to more present online. All emails will be answered within a few days. And if at any point I backslide into my old, bad,
head-in-sand ways, please know this is a problem I've had for a long time.
It is never ever a reflection of how much I
value and appreciate you!
