Is Social Media Really “Free” Book Marketing?
29/05/2025
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Part two in an ongoing series thinking through the relationship between social media, marketing, and being an active writer. You can read
Four days of a sore throat and runny nose. Four nights without using my CPAP machine to regulate my sleep apnea, which means I wake every day with a head full of cotton wool, exhaustion, and nascent craziness waiting to be given form. I slough around the house, coughing up phlegm. I sleep in fifteen minute bursts, before my own biology revolts and wakes me up to start consciously sucking down air again.
I do not trust myself to react to anything, because all my reactions are basically insane: extreme; ill-formed; straight from the exhausted, primal Id. I cannot be trusted to engage with other people. I can barely be trusted with the written word.
I was planning on starting a new project in June – a short, straight-rush project contained by thirty days, just to see if I could manage it.
This is going to make things interesting.
Part two in an ongoing series thinking through the relationship between social media, marketing, and being an active writer. You can read
It’s the eighteenth of March here in Australia, which means I’ve just turned another year older. We’re still fixing things up after
I’m writing this from an apartment packed down for impending cyclone/hurricane due to hit Brisbane some time in the next 24 hours.
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Ugh, yes, the fatigue death-spiral that comes from trying to mix a CPAP and a head cold is awful. I had two nights out from a heavy sniffle last week and I still haven’t recovered from it. I hope it clears up soon, Peter.