Tardiness

Hi James! It just occurred to me that I'm on New Orleans time and therefore it is already past midnight on the east coast. I knew it would happen eventually... I'm late to post. But I've been working on a response all day. I promise to have it up tomorrow. For now, here's a taste of what I have to share with you:

John Green on social media (1/19/20)
"This should be fun. I know that owning a business and running a business is not fun day in and day out, but there are moments when it's fun. There are moments when you're making connections with your customers and it's really fun and you feel grateful that you got into this weird business of ours. And I think that that should be the goal in online communication as well. That should be the goal when you're reaching out to your community. And I really believe that in the same sense that you have this community of customers and the physical community in which your stores are located, you also have an online community and it's really helpful to me at least to imagine them similarly. It's helpful for me to imagine Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook or wherever as my neighborhood. And in the same way that things that I say to my neighbors aren't that big of a deal, things that I say on twitter aren't that big of a deal. I think that's one of the number one obstacles that we all face, particularly when you're using social media for the first time - we're used to text mattering."

Ps - I think I get a pass with my lateness since I spent last night getting you all sorts of behind the scenes info on the secret lives of authors. ;-)