Let's try it this way. I have a novel I want published. It isn't a Christian novel, but I am Christian, and conservative. Two things I want to happen to sell that novel:
1. Have an agent to hawk it to the right publishing houses.
2. Market it.
238 agents represent middle-grade novels. Out of that list, I excluded all but 89 of them. Why did I exclude them? Two reasons:
1. Their morals.
2. My morals.
What's wrong with their morals? Do you think agents should try and sell children's books promoting the LBGTQXYZ agenda? Hell no! And yet, that's what they're looking for. It's selling.
That left me with 89 agents. Out of those 89 agents, roughly ten never gave hints of their political or religious beliefs. The rest are liberals. I've got nothing against liberals. (I've got everything against anarchists.) But what are the chances they'll have nothing against me either? After all, if you think liberally, will you even like a story that's obviously conservative? (And, again. Not a Christian writer, a Christian who writes. So this isn't promoting any belief system or political party, which, got to say, since it's a Children-fight-Capitol-Hill series is going to be tough to pull off, but again. I've got nothing against real liberals.)
And think about it. 238 agents representing children's books, and 228 of them are liberal. Don't you think that shows where the publishing climate is in the English speaking world? (Because that includes agents in Canada and Great Britain.)
Now about marketing. Guess which platforms are best to market on. FB and Twitter!
Along with being a writer, I'm also a human being! I'm also a loud mouth and opinionated. I'm terrified to say anything negative about the anarchists' agenda for fear of being banned. Or found out by the agents. BUT, I cannot shut up, so I do respond to some incredibly stupid Tweets and FB posts.
Guess what. Big Brother is watching. Zuckerberg just told Congress and the American public that he is deleting accounts of people who are anti-liberals. And he doesn't mean anti-liberals. He means anti-anarchists. Because he is one! We've just hit 1984! And under the guise that "no one is forcing us," too!
I don't believe at all that he was not aware of the so called 'breach'. he has been actively doing it since conception...and you prob know it was not even his conception
he's a stinker (family friendly forum) to put it mildly and you know he is lying when he starts talking
he has banned people for scraping personal info (without his permission) going years back. always about the $$$. I never did it, but you used to be able to purchase apps that would do it for you...all in the name of making money for whatever it was you were trying to sell on fb
I know a bit of inside stuff on how things go because I used to belong to an outfit out of the UK with regards to using WordPress so learned quite a bit about security etc, but I don't use WP anymore because it is actually impossible to have a 100% secure site and I have had a couple of sites hacked, including 'brute force' attempts from eastern block countries (which was ridiculous, but they want to piggy back off your site for their endeavors at hacking others)...had my pc hacked with a 3rd party 'using' it and had to hire a firm to get me out of that mess ...I could go on...but the thing is, everyone can just forget privacy. nothing is truly secure.
I only use platforms for my 2 sites with a company that does all the work with regards to security etc. these days, you can create beautiful sites without needing WP anyway...most beautiful sites are either using WP or a platform that provides themes in which you can do basically the same with a little html5 or hire someone
alot of blah blah blah I guess, but I would not ever put my opinions on fb or any similar platform and people keep on keeping on doing it anyway as though they were having a chat with their best friend. I have no politics there and really would like to just move on from it but I understand why business or 'public personas' use it and that's fine
