All those things are fine, Alan. What Sarah is talking about (and you mainly see on FB) is something else entirely and quite gobsmacking. Example: a friend mine mentioned her drains were blocked. Someone comes on and says, 'A character in my new ebook has drains that were blocked - I think you'd love it!' There's simple oodles of that stuff. It was one reason I deleted my FB account and, when I went back on, only accepted people I actually knew or had some contact with as 'friends'. Before that I got inundated with this stuff.

A bit of promotion isn't a problem. I'll always announce publication dates and major reviews. But it's the personal approaches and the repeat tweets (there used to be someone on Twitter who whacked out the same one twice a day, seven days a week, pushing a book). Enough!

And frankly - I don't think it works either. The whole social media thing is greatly overplayed. Most of us are really only 'interacting' with a very small community of people.