Focusing My Social Media

The past year, and the past month in particular, has been a watershed time for me.  I released the two books that I felt had the best chance to be successes which could launch my career into being an author who doesn’t need a day job on the side.  They were Two Gun Hart and the second Relic Worlds book.  (It’s not this second one alone that I’ve felt has such a great opportunity, but the Relic Worlds series in general; and this was the first book that was going to show what Relic Worlds could be as a series.)

I’ve also finished the Command Combat: Civil War game series, and launched my gaming channel, Bandwagon Games, which more or less takes the place of the war gaming channel I had, Command Combat Battle Reports.  I had hoped one of these would launch some sort of career.  What they’ve done instead is simply teach me what an independent media producer/publisher/writer/creator needs to do.

One of those things is to streamline, and to focus on what works.  I’ve been spread out for a while now trying to catch every audience member of every type of work I want to do.  I had social media platforms for every one of my projects, and I never entirely kept up with any of them.  I had some fans, but not enough to truly build upon anything.  So I had to focus.

My primary focus is going to be on Relic Worlds, and I’ll make another post that explains more about why later.  I’ll build my platform on that, but I don’t want to remain limited to it.  So even though I’ll be posting a lot on Relic World’s social media platforms, I’m going to maintain a presence as an author in general.

Therefore, I’m going to retain this blog as a general location where I post about things of which I have an interest.  It will deal a lot with independent publishing and producing, as well as what I’m doing as an author.  A lot of it will involve Relic Worlds and Bandwagon Games, as those are the two projects I’m going to focus more on, but there will be other things that aren’t relevant to science fiction or gaming that I want to place somewhere, so they’ll go here.  In fact, most of my posts will have their birth on this site, and will then be sent out to other locations, so you’ll see a repeat of them in other locations.

For instance, when I post about something regarding independent publishing, I will repost it in the Bandwagon Books blog.  When it involves gaming, I’ll repost it to Bandwagon Games.  The big difference between what I’m doing now and what I did before is that this blog, and the social media platforms for Relic Worlds and Bandwagon Games will be regularly kept up, while my other platforms, such as Bandwagon Books and my personal Twitter will be done irregularly, based purely on when I feel there’s something relevant to say about a specific subject.

I'm also going to be placing Tales of a Failed Filmmaker on a separate blog, and I'll be reposting there every time I put up one of those stories.  I got to thinking that people who are interested in those tales may want a blog just about that, so it's the one exception I'm making to the whole idea of consolidating.

So these are the various platforms I’ll be covering and how often I’ll be covering them:

Jeff McArthur Author

Blogger – Weekly

            Tales of a Failed Filmmaker - Irregularly

Facebook page – Irregularly

Twitter – Irregularly

Relic Worlds

Mail Chimp – Monthly

Tumblr blog – Weekly blog / Daily reblog

Facebook page – Daily

Twitter – Twice daily

Youtube – Irregularly

Bandwagon Games

Youtube – Daily

Tumblr blog – Twice daily

Facebook page – Daily

Twitter – Twice daily

Google + - Weekly

Bandwagon Books

Blogger – Irregularly

Twitter – Irregularly