Cover Story: A Whole New Playbook
It was hard, too, on Twitter; I just went one-way. Unfollowed everybody. They’d write really beautiful things about my books, but I can’t spend all day responding to everybody who writes. … It’s important to create that barrier between friend and fan, for my own mental health. I really like a real relationship. I’d much rather have an hour-long conversation at a bar than sent texts or Tweet. It starts to stress me out. I’m not somebody who’s great at multi-tasking. Between Twitter and Facebook and email, I have so many voices in my head, I can’t tap back into me. Part was pragmatism, and part was to send that clear message; I will get personal fast, and sometimes people think that means that they can just drop by my house or write me a long memoir about their life. …