Joining Substack is a bit out of character for me. I’m not much of a joiner and definitely not a big social media fan.
What Is Substack?
I’m still trying to find an answer to this. It seems to be lots of people doing informational or opinion blogs. The types of these is immense and mostly of no interest to me.
Another aspect seems to be to try to get people to follow your articles. There is even a push to have paid subscriptions to these.
Why Did I Join?
My first brush with this site was through a podcast by J.F. Penn with Anne Lamott. Authors seemed to be joining Substack.
When I went to Rendezvous on the River, two of the local authors there had accounts and were happy with them. It seemed a good place to meet other authors, possibly find beta readers, maybe readers.
Now What?
My website has two posts a week on it, most weeks. I do a monthly book review for my local library. There are several book drafts I am working on. This will be another post at least weekly to get written.
Most of the Substack people seem to have some topic they put up articles about. I have no idea what topic I would write about. Most of my topics are of little interest to other people.
My Purpose in Joining Substack
Although I love to write, I would love to have other people read my books as well. It is extremely hard to get people to notice my books among the millions published each year.
That brings up another difficulty for me. Although I have self published eighteen books, they are for many ages, on different topics, in different genres, fiction and nonfiction.
I want to find readers. Perhaps the authors on Substack can help me find some of them.
