There's a great emphasis today among the gurus who give writers advice on going out there to find readers. Market yourself. Have a website, a Facebook page, twitter often (twit twit). Market yourself.
This advice was not around when I started writing, or if it was, no writer I knew paid attention to it. There was a different strategy at work. Write well -- and readers will find you.
What a difference!
I occasionally have gone out to "find readers" but I never enjoyed it much. And I certainly don't get the rush I get when I learn that readers have found me.
Write well and the readers, the appropriate readers, will find you. It almost sounds un-American today.
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Found you!
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