BRYAN W. ALASPA

Hey there, regular readers and fans and whatever. My people! How are you? Great. Look, I know there is a lot going on and things are super-busy here, too. I have a new book coming out on Oct 23 in my continuing attempt to have a new horror or thriller out come every Halloween. So far, so good. This year, it's When the Night Comes Out which is my truly horrifying collection of horror short stories. I am very proud of the book. OK, that's out of the way. I am writing this today

One of the things that you are going to have to do when you decide to self-publish is use social media. Get over your fear of Facebook and Twitter and learn how to use them. Those are the ones that I use the most and I have done some actual experiments where I did not post my links to my various books to Twitter and found that sales have gone down. You will hear a lot of people talk about all of the other areas and things you need to do. You'll hear about email lists and send