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April 6, 2023 1:20 am Leave your thoughts
When I first looked at publishing the Darkrose novels, I was wary of self-publishing, it didn’t seem like it was the best option for a few years…and now it’s the same playing field (almost.) There are film adaptations to some books written by indie authors – which is such a great thing because a good idea is a good idea regardless of how it was packaged. So much was changing that I just did it and hoped for the best – that I wouldn’t screw it up.
When I created this website, it was to run alongside my work, and maybe have some people read the blog because I genuinely love to write. It was going to give me an opportunity to present something every week. I imagined it would be other indie authors maybe who might read it, maybe some curious, random people from time to time. I never knew what I was aiming for, I just wanted to write and didn’t mind if the clicks were 2 or 200. It was exciting either way to know someone gave you five minutes of their time to read something you’d written.
After posting some subject matter (on a connected but personal account,) memes that were political/in disagreement with their bought off,admittedly-solicited-by-government agendas and narrative, I guess social media didn’t like me. I noticed that EVER EDEN’s reach was limited and muted all of a sudden. The drop was substantial.
Shadow-banning is real. My hits on posts that I advertised or pasted on certain social media sites suddenly went from 150 views to 3views some weeks.
It’s amazing what the powers that be can do to you. And I’m just a random indie author who posts memes in downtime. I did care at first because I felt it was something that had momentum and was kind of fun. I don’t care now. I’d always wanted to write for me and maybe a cult-following of meme hoarding savages who liked to laugh, think about deep issues and maybe have a big a crush on Agent Starr as I do. It’s my hope this will happen again, without my having to lick the taint of social media giants who wish to stifle someone who commits WRONGTHINK but sharing memes or a quip about their dementia-ridden commander in chief. To be honest though, I think it was mostly the Rona commentary, which was hard not to want to say something about the way that was handled and it happened after I posted a QUOTE from my PUBLISHED BOOK: KING OF SPADES.
Any time I posted or advertised my book or page with the quote, it would get taken down, rejected, and even got warnings that it went against “community guidelines.” Which quote? It’s something Agent Cleo Darkrose says in King of Spades while talking to a useful-idiot type, nothing too crazy or controversial. It doesn’t even have swearing in it.
THE OFFENDING QUOTE:
“This world isn’t run by presidents or government, it’s controlled by people whose wealth is incomprehensible.”
I mean, isn’t that common knowledge? Oh, and it’s a FICTIONAL book. You scared, bro?
It’d be funny if it wasn’t so, so, so sad. Censors are working hard to stamp out any smoke around the fires. It just shows me that with art, we change the world.
The groups I was in on social media were full of a certain type of people, seemingly those with a blad personality who weren’t going to understand the ideas I had or the topics I was interested. When you have knowledge or an informed option and the articulation to express it, you feel the need to and occasionally I did that here…but for the most part, I kept it palatable for all types of people(I tried to.) I flirted with infusing some opinion and then Rona happened. And I couldn’t NOT say something. Even then, I held back.
Doing the “Ever Something to Say” started out with me dictating old blog posts, using text to speech programs before giving in and using my voice. But I found that it tethered me. I couldn’t make side notes or jokes, or even deliver the lines the way I’d initially written them without semi-rehearsing; reading the line a few times over. It was time-consuming and felt like I was acting. Now, it’s commentary on stuff that’s happening as well as random stories from this thing I call my life.
Sometimes I don’t know if I should keep doing it because there’s no goal behind it. I just got bored one day and now it’s a thing.
I kept promising Red Cowboys releases that never came, and I intended them to be genuine but then my physical health worsened and on top, just as life would have it, I had another few challenges…I experienced 2 friends die. It’s the shock, recovery, thoughts and what ifs. I haven’t forgotten Red Cowboys, it’s just…I experienced more dreams that were dashed.
It’s been a day.
Thus ends my stream-of-consciousness blog post.
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