Latest news rolling in from the ole chopping block!
I’m now doing author interviews for Horror Tree! If you’re interested in becoming part of the “Spooky Six with Willow Croft” crowd, I can assure you that your head will remain very firmly attached!
So, what are you waiting for? If you’re a horror, sci-fi, fantasy, cli-fi, or a romance author that writes in any of the spec fic or paranormal genres, reach out to me at croftwillow [at] yahoo [dot] com. Don’t see your genre listed? Reach out with any questions!
More “rolling heads” news. Twitter. Sigh. I realized that I may need to keep the account for a wholly unexpected reason I didn’t even think about. I still don’t have the heart to reconnect there, yet, but it may be inevitable. How’s everyone else’s Twitter move going?
P.S. I reactivated my account just to see, and every…last…one…of my followers/following were gone. Just like that. Poof. So, that’s that. Ha!
Willow Croft 
I deactivated twitter yesterday and I am not planning to log back in, so gone in 29 days. Anyway, I am looking forward to reading your six horror interviews. Do you know Priscilla Bettis? She writes horror.
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Nice re: Twitter! I will share the links on here when the interviews post on Horror Tree. I’ve also let my own “Five Things Friday” author interviews get away from me on my blog, but I hope to resurrect them soon! And thanks for the suggestion re: Priscilla Bettis!
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I’m keeping Twitter active so at least no one can swipe my username, but I’ve been shifting my activity to Mastodon and really liking it. I know it’s not for everyone but it works for me!
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I’ll have to try it out!
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If I had a user name that didn’t have a number attached to it, I definitely would be more cautious about jumping off…but…
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Twitter — I’m outta there and I’m not going to go back. I like not having that noise in my life.
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Give it a few days. Your follower count will come back. That happened to me when I first reactivated my personal account, which, like vcaudley pointed out, I did after reading that others can claim your name if you delete your account and pose as you. Not that I’m anyone worth posing as, but I didn’t want any confusion just in case. lol But the count came back, minus all those who have since fled Twitter.
And congrats on your new interview gig!
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Congrats on the interview job. I still have my Twitter and I’m losing followers only to gain some custom spammers. I’m just tired of feeling ignored over there. With most social medias I just log on for a few minutes and leave since people rarely see my stuff anyway. I write dark humor with four elements in it and horror cartoons. Would I qualify?
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Absolutely! Send me an email, and I’ll send you the questions! I’m excited for you to join in (it’s a great blog!)!!!
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Or we can even do it over zoom, if that works better 🙂
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That should read gain some followers plus some spammers. I am so tired the speech to text screwing up. I really wish WordPress and Twitter had an edit button. With dyspraxia it’s impossible to type on these phones
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I know! I make so many mistakes on my phone when I type. I hardly ever text…it’s my “favourite” thing when people ask me really complicated questions via text. I’m like “the heck with this” and I just call people whether they like it or not. 🙂
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I have held steady on Twitter, and I don’t plan to completely close my account. I want to still have it if things turn around. I do still see you as an account I follow there. The most recent post is from Nov. 8. If you’ve posted since, then it didn’t come through.
I am diversifying in the face of this uncertainty. Posting more on Facebook, exploring options my friends have recommended.
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Yeah, I realized belatedly that I probably need it for a certain portion of the type of services I provide. I was feeling really good about leaving. Sigh. What a quandary. *wry laugh*
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A lot of people are pinning a post with links to other social media and just being a lot less active there.
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Great suggestion…thanks!
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I deactivated my Twitter account a couple of days ago now. I’ve been on Mastodon for almost two weeks and really enjoying it.
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Nice. I haven’t quite found the time to make it over to that yet, but I hope to, if I ever manage to escape my current locale!
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I look forward to reading those interviews. I’m a big fan of these genres, though I don’t write in them.
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I have a friend in mind. Sending him over 😄
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Perfect, thank you so much!
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I’m intrigued and will be reading your interviews!
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Thanks, Christy B!
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Yes..I could not link twitter with my blog. Anita
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I’m still on Twitter, but I try not to listen/read about the complaints and politics and stuff. I try to keep it to book news.
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I am not very active on Twitter (mostly I just funnel posts there from the blogs) but I have seen several accounts I follow advertise that they are moving to Mastodon, so I might check that out at some point. I certainly don’t want to feed the Musk Ox more than necessary …
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I know, right? I was feeling pretty good about it…I mean, I was never very active on Twitter, but after I deactivated it, I realized I probably need it for a certain area re: the type of gig work that I do. Sigh. What a quandary.
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Just sent you an email 😊 As for Twitter, I just searched you and your account seems to be back to normal? I keep thinking about getting off it—it’s so horrible now. I’ve given up reading any comments on anything nice because there are such awful people trying to destroy it all.
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So cool that you’ll be doing author interviews! I’ll probably contact you for the horror genre–and I love Horror Tree! I’m still on Twitter. I’ll look for you. Twitter is quite weird now. I’ve noticed more people I’ve had to block, but otherwise, I’m still finding lots of great authors and lit mags to follow.
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I’m still on Twitter, but being more careful. I also have a new account on Mastodon in case Twitter crashes or worse.
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I haven’t yet gravitated over to Mastodon yet, but I hope to…my energy is a little taken up with finding a new place to go to… 🙂
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How do you like Mastodon? (Anybody know if the name is reference to a particular Hiaasen book?)
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Don’t know about the book reference. So far, pretty slow at Mastodon, but I haven’t really gotten established. You have to choose a server (or instance) first. That threw me. Under “All” look for creativewriting.social and you’ll be in known territory. Once you’ve chosen the server, then it looks a lot like Twitter.
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Ah, interesting…
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Yeah, I gotta get over there…I’m worried about time suck though. LOL!
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Could you perhaps have a — Losing Your Head Day—- once a week or month? Just a thought as I quietly play my violin.
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I hear that! (P.S. I looked it up on the National Day Calendar, and I’m pretty sure I remember one, but when I did the search, it brought up “National Bartender Day” and I was like “That works just as well”. Ha!)
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I could fetch a Violin if anyone was stupid enough to lend me one. Ha, ha
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I loved playing the violin as a kid…sadly, I don’t have one, but I was dreaming about taking it up again…
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