Talk it over: Socially aware
LUDDITE LIL, Carmarthenshire
Jane Wenham Jones advises a writer reluctant to embrace today’s tech that not being connected to the wired world means missing out on a wealth of opportunities
I have the feeling, Lil, as you are reading this magazine – still printed on glossy paper and sent through the post or picked up in an actual physical shop – that many other subscribers will be nodding their heads in sympathy at your question. I know lots of writers feel somewhat overwhelmed by all the social media platforms we are supposed to engage with these days and you are not the only person to feel resistant to the whole business.
But your question is – do you need to overcome this? And I would love to tell you, that you don’t.
However, it would be disingenuous to pretend that the whole publishing/bookbuying world hasn’t changed beyond all recognition in the last decade. When I wrote a book about it in 2007, there was only one page on e-publishing and I got somebody else to write it because it was totally outside my experience.