• Marketing is hard and depressing 
• Maintaining a social media presence requires a certain degree of pretense 
• If one doesn’t constantly comment on other’s posts, one doesn’t have a social presence
• Book fairs, community events, and speaking engagements are mandatory but mind numbing
• Empty promises from people for reviews, promotions, or feedback, reiterates rejection
• Extroverts don’t understand the struggle
• Long periods of isolation are required for recovery from social functions 
• Book publishers should provide free professional marketers (One can dream)
• Writers need words of encouragement from readers and publisher
• Discouragement leads to further withdrawal from being social

I’d rather be writing!

Are you an introverted novelist? How do you cope with marketing?