100 Facebook Fans

I don't know why this pleases me so much, but it does. Social networking (or "social not working" as a friend of mine calls it) has become an important part of twenty-first century book publicity. I've never seen any information that proves definitively that Twittering hourly or creating fan pages on Facebook leads to greater book sales, but because the matter is so uncertain, there's a tendency for nervous authors and publishers to overcompensate. So it was with a frivolous sense of joy that I saw today that The Poacher's Son has reached the magical milestone of one hundred fans on Facebook. What amuses me is that the novel is still three months from publication, and very few people have read the advance galleys, so most of my fans are voicing their support of the book on faith alone. If nothing else, that's a terrific boost of confidence. Now if I can just get to two hundred....