{"id":31,"date":"2017-08-15T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/?p=31"},"modified":"2017-08-16T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:21:11","slug":"im-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/2017\/08\/15\/im-expanding\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not my waistline. I’m expanding my web presence. I put LaurenMilfinger.com on the web last week, started this blog, and now I’ve added Twitter to the mix. You can follow me at http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/laurenmilfinger<\/a>, or @laurenmilfinger. It’s so cool to discover I could use my own name and not have to add any qualifiers! How often does that happen these days?<\/p>\n

So, why am I tweeting and blogging and starting my own website? It’s called publicity. I’m an author. I write books, screenplays, short stories, even completely legitimate, not remotely sexy articles, essays, and what have you. The last of those mostly under a different name. The thing is, none of that pays very well. It used to pay a lot better, but that was before every character with a computer and access to the Internet decided he was going to get rich by selling a novel on Amazon. The flood of poorly-written books not only reflects on all the good ones, it makes them a lot harder to find. An online presence outside Amazon helps with visibility. It’s even more helpful when you’re not on<\/em> Amazon. My erotica is pu\"\"<\/a>blished and sold by Lot’s Cave<\/a>, because Amazon won’t list it.<\/p>\n

I’ve got plans for the website. It’s there to plug my books, obviously, but the older I get, the more concerned I become with eventually being able to retire. I love writing, yet I’m fairly sure I don’t want to be spending ten hours a day in front of a computer when I’m 84. So I’ll be including other features. Book reviews are an obvious addition. And there will be a member’s section, once the technical part is worked out. We have to get hooked up with a payment processor, and set up a gallery. We’ll have pictures in there, because I do appreciate beauty and I find naked women particularly beautiful. There will likely be story fragments. Those hot, sensual bits that for some reason or other either didn’t make it into a book, or were going to be a book but just didn’t come together. You don’t need a plot to write a sex scene, but you do need one to make it into a novel.<\/p>\n

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No, not my waistline. I’m expanding my web presence. I put LaurenMilfinger.com on the web last week, started this blog, and now I’ve added Twitter to the mix. You can follow me at http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/laurenmilfinger, or @laurenmilfinger. It’s so cool to discover I could use my own name and not have to add any qualifiers! How … Continue reading “I’m Expanding”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenmilfinger.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}