I'm generally an honest person, often to the point of bluntness, so I'll be frank; I'm not a very sociable individual. With that in mind social media was something I never had any interest in, nor involvement with. That all changed when Discoredia was released. Suddenly, I needed an online presence. I set up a website, joined Twitter, and signed up for Facebook. It was a big change and, with hindsight, I made some mistakes.
At that time I only had one thing to really shout about; Discoredia. As such everything was done with the emphasis on that particular piece of work. My twitter name? @jcdiscoredia, Facebook page? Discoredia, Website? You know that, you're on it, and even if you weren't it wouldn't take a genius to figure out that it's called... Discoredia.
The thing is, that was three years ago. Fair enough, it's my only novel, but my short stories have done well since and have not just featured in some damn good anthologies but have even been singled out for praise within them. With more releases on the horizon should a three year old novel that still only has a handful of reviews on Amazon remain the focus? I don't think it should. Fine, we can keep it as the website name, and my twitter name, but the Facebook page? That needs to be me, as an author. And the look and feel of the website can also be overhauled regardless of the name.
So, 2016, time for a change. I guess the only question is how much of 2016 will be gone before I get around to doing it.
At that time I only had one thing to really shout about; Discoredia. As such everything was done with the emphasis on that particular piece of work. My twitter name? @jcdiscoredia, Facebook page? Discoredia, Website? You know that, you're on it, and even if you weren't it wouldn't take a genius to figure out that it's called... Discoredia.
The thing is, that was three years ago. Fair enough, it's my only novel, but my short stories have done well since and have not just featured in some damn good anthologies but have even been singled out for praise within them. With more releases on the horizon should a three year old novel that still only has a handful of reviews on Amazon remain the focus? I don't think it should. Fine, we can keep it as the website name, and my twitter name, but the Facebook page? That needs to be me, as an author. And the look and feel of the website can also be overhauled regardless of the name.
So, 2016, time for a change. I guess the only question is how much of 2016 will be gone before I get around to doing it.