Is communication key?
As a romance author, I say, yes, communication is key. Communication with your significant other is the basis for a good relationship…otherwise you might as well marry a wall. And I’m not getting into humping a wall…
Good communication is also key with your publisher. It’s important to talk to them and for them to talk to you. (Email makes it difficult to read other people so I’m a fan of IM. ) To be available to each other. It’s important to talk to your fellow authors as well.
But how important is it to talk to your readers? And how important is it for readers to talk to authors? Some days it feels like I’m sitting in a jail cell churning out the pages. The next I have fifteen comments waiting on my blog… all spam. Spam sucks.
Has apathy taken over consumer communication? Do we not feel the need to praise products we enjoy or complain about products we hate? Is it not PC to do so? At what point did it become acceptable for an author to say “I’m too busy to reply personally, but I read all my email?” Perhaps when I’m not the little fish in the big pond, I’ll feel different.
But today, I feel microscopic.
