15/06/2026
Happy Monday Facebook, people, followers, readers and everyone else in between.
Wishing you a great week.
After some good relaxation and rest which was needed, seeing friends and family and just generally having a lot of fun and down time, I am getting back into the rhythm of things again.
I will answer comments and messages and follow people back, I appreciate you.
While on my break I met some really nice interesting people, we laughed we shared and exchanged life stories, you shown interest in what I do and was really kind, enthusiastic and it was a real pleasure getting to know you all.
Wearing my merchandise everywhere I went while on my break, it really did help with engagement in the real world. People shown a lot of interest and it was really nice to hear and see how you responded. Seeing and hearing how you care about the topics really made me feel what I was doing was a worthy cause and I can’t thank you all enough. It made it feel what I was doing was valuable or worth it again, as I was feeling a bit burned out (I am just being honest)
This is a little message for all authors - It really is worth wearing your books on your T shirts and giving out merchandise to people . Whether anything comes from it, it was still fun and a pleasure to just chat and talk to people. I reached people who are not online, more people who now know of my work, books and inspirations behind them. That in itself is worth it.
This message is for readers - On my break I had quite a few people who had shown interest and said they would buy my book, this means a lot to me and I just want to give a nice shout out to those who still buy and enjoy reading books and to those people who may buy any of my books. To those who see the value and want to support me and my work was really heartwarming. I know many of you are not online so I am just shouting it out and you may not hear, but I genuinely thank you anyway. It’s hard for authors to connect with and get readers, so it means a huge deal to us.
This message is for my followers - Thank you for following, for showing interest and supporting me by simply following. Engagement is nice and I appreciate any comments, messages that I get. I will always try to reply as often as I can and come on as often as I can. I am happy to chat, laugh and support back as often as I can. But I just wanted to express that I do care and I thank every one of you honestly, for sharing my posts and content. You are helping people and me by doing this, you are helping people decide whether our books are good for readers and groups, helping families decide on gifts, thank you for leaving messages and sharing my posts you don’t realise how important you are and how important that is not only for me but to other authors too. You are appreciated more than you understand. You can help share the message of global warming and climate change and make it fun for younger readers, that’s huge, so big respect for sharing and helping authors.
This message is for reviewers - Reviews and reviewers are so important to authors, again it helps authors in a way that you can’t imagine. It helps others make informed decisions, it helps with word of mouth. It’s important and pivotal and again you don’t realise how much of an impact you can make on an author or help them feel that what they do is meaningful or important, you recognise there efforts and hard work enough to share your views. You can really cheer up and lift a person up without realising how much. That is super powerful and you can boost people’s morale and give them the validation we all sometimes need from time to time.
So to everyone thank you, you are important and even if you feel you are not I am just here to real-iterate that you are and can make a real difference to someone else and how they feel, just for showing support, comment, share, buy, read, review, it all means a big deal to us. That goes for everyone or any business, whether you are self employed or not, who are trying to build something valuable and this is not just authors, anyone who works hard and puts in the time, effort, energy and finances into something you have my complete respect and others. You are worthy and important.
If you got this far without falling asleep I applaud you 🤣👏 Again just a big thank you to you all.
Like everyone we are busy people, doing many things others may not see. My goal in the next few weeks is to find the time to really improve my website, I will achieve this and I am hoping to help authors with visibility soon, by including and advertising there books on my own website.
Happy Monday, have a great week and let others know that they are important, life and time is limited and it’s easy to forget that we are all in this together, pushing and working hard so we can appreciate and support one another.
Have a great week. Take care.
Ian
