A quick FYI

ETA: So I've now learned that this is actually not the only survey they are showing people, so it's just the luck of the draw whether you get this one or one about, say, imitation meat. DAMMIT. Sorry guys, looks like Twitter is evil as usual, and got me. :/



If you're on Twitter, you might see a message appear in your feed asking you to take a survey. TAKE THE SURVEY. It is asking about misinformation and what, if anything, Twitter should do about it. It will start out asking demographic questions (which you'll have various options for giving non-answers to, if you don't want to disclose) and then move on to questions about misleading information and whether you support various options for getting rid of it, or think Twitter should do nothing.

It's all multiple choice except for one question at the end that asks you to give your own definition of misinformation. After thinking about it, I ended up filling in this:

Information known to be inaccurate and shared with intent to deceive and provoke an emotional or intellectual response to encourage a particular political or social outcome.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, giving Twitter some more data on their users actually wanting them to do something about this might be a good thing.

Public relations is the wooooooorst

So today I'm working on Facebook branding for my author persona.

(Me to Orion: The chaotic branding I've been doing on Facebook isn't really working.
Him: Yeah, you should really look into neutral or lawful branding instead.)

I have a new page for running FB ads from and generally for making book announcements, called Magic, Mayhem, and Mystery. You can see what it looks like here:

https://www.facebook.com/Magic-Mayhem-and-Mystery-601173417239021/

I wanted the name to apply to the general array of genres that this pen name is going to write, which will probably be mainly urban fantasy and mystery/thriller with supernatural or SF elements.

I want to redo my (largely unused) author group to match this, more or less, and start using it more. Specifically I want to make it more about my books and less about me. In the beginning I pretty much tried to roll all of my projects into one group that was really more about me than about what I do - this is what I mean by chaotic branding. It's called, sensibly enough, Layla Lawlor's Books and Art. But now that I'm looking around at what other people are doing with theirs, they've got cute names (like Hunter's Haven for an author named Elizabeth Hunter) and are more specifically focused on the books, and I want to do that too.

So I'm going to rename the group and make it sort of match the page, and I'm not sure what to call it.

My other author group, for the Lauren Esker paranormal romances, is called Lauren's Fireside Book Chat and I'm pretty happy with that - and with the "brand" for that page in general, which is kind of cozy and homey. This one is going to be more, I guess, stylish and actiony? But I do like the idea of having "Layla's X" to match the "Lauren's X" theme with the other group.

So now I'm just ... thinking of names. Layla's Magical Mayhem, maybe? I keep wanting to call it "Layla's Magical Mystery Tour", which is completely ridiculous but also kind of appealing.

AUGH.

Any suggestions are gratefully welcomed.