The Author Guy Blog by Larry B. Gildersleeve

5th April 2024

Hello out there.

Welcome back. Spring cleaning is normally associated with material things in one’s house, but for me, it’s been a different yet incredibly welcome derivation. I’ve been de-cluttering my computer – specifically, uncoupling from newsletters I once deemed either valuable or potentially so – and no longer do.

What prompted this initiative is my previously-discussed escape from ten years of self-publishing. As a result, a vast number of email newsletters to which I, as a self-published indie author, had subscribed that were somewhat interesting but no longer relevant. Instead of simply deleting them as they arrived in my in-box, and took the next right step and clicked the “unsubscribe” link.

Inspired by a sense of weight being lifted, and then embarked on shutting off a significant amount of invasive communications on Facebook that arrive throughout the day. I’ll share that Facebook is the only social media platform to which I pay any attention, and I can go days without feeling the pull to log on and begin scrolling down.

In truth, it now feels as if I’ve gone on a diet that resulted in immediate weight loss. Were that it could be true for the extras pounds accumulated during the winter that will be more difficult to shed.

Until next week … Vaya con Dios

Larry B. Gildersleeve