I know I should be hard at work on my present manuscript – which is finally starting to flow! But I’d like your input on a Facebook matter. You see, back when I first sold to Harlequin Mills and Boon, author pages were the rage on Facebook.  And since I already had an established personal page, children whose lives I’d like to keep private, and friends who may not be interested in my career as a writer, I set one up. If you haven’t seen it, you can visit it at Wendy S. Marcus Author Page.

The problem is, whenever I post on another Facebook page, like the Mills and Boon New Voices page for example, Facebook does not allow me to comment as my author page. So I wind up commenting via my personal page. Confused yet?

Anyway, as a result of my activity on Facebook, I am blessed to receive many friend requests on my personal page. This after I specifically encourage people to visit my author page. Initially, I responded to each one explaining that to protect my family and my children, I do not accept friend requests from people I do not know personally. 

In one instance, after sending the above response to a friend request, I received a not-so-nice return message stating if the person – who shall remain nameless – wasn’t good enough to be my friend then she wasn’t good enough to be my fan.

So now I send out a blanket statement thanking people for the friend request and encouraging them to LIKE my author page to receive my updates. I send the link and everything. I’m pretty active on my author page. It’s a great place to get in touch with me.

Now here’s the issue. Very few people go on to LIKE my author page. Why is that? 

I would like to go on record here to let you all know that I mean no disrespect by not accepting your friend request.  I purposely set up a Facebook author page for the author side of my life. It is not my intention to hurt anyone’s feelings or make my readers feel like they are not important to me. You are very important! That’s why I gave you your very own page!

And I hope to see you there! Wendy S. Marcus Author Page