Will social media become an addiction?

I’ve started to contact social media experts to talk about their helping me build an awareness for my forthcoming novel, THE BEEHIVE, which I plan to self publish next spring.

It is really, really enjoyable to tell these experts about my hopes and dreams for the book. But it also feels addictive. So, because I’m such a worrier, I worry that these so called experts will suck me dry of money while I use them like a patient would use an analyst, to listen to me and give me the attention that I crave from the public at large.

Maybe I’m being ridiculous. If I hire some of these experts, which I would love to do, I’ll set goals for them, so I can measure their progress. Mostly I’m afraid they won’t be able to do me any good at all, and my dream of finding an audience for my work will be finished for good.

But I do know one thing: as my sister told me, doing something is better than doing nothing. I have to do something. I can’t walk away from my dream knowing that the one thing I could have tried -using social media – I never even attempted to do.

I have to try. If that means spending a lot of money, so be it. If that means opening myself to being seduced by the addictive quality of talking about my dreams and making a project out of social media, so be it. I have to try.