Transparency

I love traveling the blogosphere and connecting with other writers. I love coming to a new writer’s blog and finding out that they have written a book, a book which is published.

What I don’t like is then trying to figure out how that book was published.

I’m not wondering this in order to judge anyone. I legitimately want to know about their journey, how they got where they are, why they took a certain route, and how it’s going.

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I even have a blog series devoted to journeys.
(The arrow should be further down my blog, but you get the point)

And, I love to support fellow writers, and there are certain forms of publication which leave the writers largely to their own devices as far as selling and marketing the book.

Is it brazen that I want to know as soon as I arrive on someone’s blog if that someone self-pubbed, has an agent, e-pubbed, has a large publisher, has an indie publisher, or wrote the book on papyrus paper?

Is that rude?

I kinda think it is. So, I don’t generally ask, as a stranger, about that journey. But I really want to know.

And a part of it is that I don’t just do blogs anymore as social media--I twitter, and google+, and (very) occasionally facebook.

So, if I can see the salient info up front, I can take that into all the social realms that I use. And, it’s not that I don’t want to go the extra mile to form a writing friendship. Ask the people whom I knock into around here. I love the extra mile. I just want to know what that mile might be.

What about you? Do you have your stats on the “cover” of your blog? Do you put it all into the “about me” paragraph? How transparent are you? How much transparency do you expect?


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