As always, excellent advice from blogger/writer/teacher/speaker/entrepreneur Jane Friedman on where a writer should invest their time — on a web site, or on social media:

I may be in the tiny minority of people who happen to think social media isn’t 100% critical for an author’s online presence. Yes, it makes things much more difficult if you refuse to use it, and I don’t like it when writers spurn it out of some kind of literary peacocking — believing that it’s “beneath” them to market themselves on social media.

But effective marketing and promotion (and platform building) does exist beyond and separate from social media. These days, I get more noticeable results from my website and blogging efforts, email newsletters, and in-person networking than I do from social media. Not that I want to give up social media—quite the contrary—but I could walk away from Facebook and still earn a living. Not so with my website—it’s absolutely fundamental.

Read the entire post here.