Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Since I started blogging, I have heard many authors bemoaning the amount of emails they get. Something I don’t really understand. Isn’t it supposed to be an indication of how well you have created your platform?

I can remember when the few emails we received in the beginning were mostly spam. These days, we get 200+ and is the one job I will not shirk. Due to time constraints though, I have recently split the load, doing half in the morning and the rest in the evening on my laptop.

It is quite a time consuming job, but one I truly enjoy. I read them all, reblogging the interesting ones, printing out the helpful informative ones and the ones I want to read again, and discarding the rubbish rest. It is worrying how many cons slip past our security nowadays, and I find myself deleting emails from all sorts of businesses. The ones I get pretending to be from our own provider are the scariest, as I get really tempted to click on the links, unwilling to upset BT. You always know which ones you can delete with a clear conscience though. Like the ones from a bank I don’t have an account with, saying my security has been compromised.  But all things considered, I have met a variety of interesting and lovely people, simply by reading emails and following their blogs.

Practically everything I have learned since the self-publishing bug bit me, has come from emails, one way or another, for the interesting thing about bloggers is that they love to share. They will share their good news and the bad, how they managed to do something amazing, and all manner of happy times.

I realise now, looking back, that I could have been a little lonely before I was a blogger, as I didn’t know many people. Can’t say that now!