I want to be upfront with you about how my social media works. You deserve to know when you're talking to me, and why this system exists.
Direct, unstructured social media would cost me the two things I'm here to protect: my health and my writing. This process is the only way I've found to genuinely connect with readers without those costs. Everything below is real, intentional, and approved by me—and I think that's worth explaining.
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Creating posts
Every post starts from something I wrote myself—a book, a blog post, a newsletter. I use Claude and AuthorAutomations.Social to adapt that longform writing into posts, and AuthorAutomations.Social (using AI models like Gemini and Nano Banana) drafts the image prompts from that same content and generates the images. My assistant and I review every draft post and image carefully, and I rewrite whatever needs it. Nothing goes out until we're sure it's a quality post that truly reflects the work it came from—then AuthorAutomations.Social schedules and publishes it.
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Monitoring engagement
A human assistant monitors my accounts and watches for comments, messages, and moments worth responding to. They surface those to me—I don't have to scroll through the noise myself to find the conversations that actually matter.
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Replies
When I respond to a comment or a message, those are my exact words—not a summary, not a rewrite, not AI standing in for me. My assistant copies and pastes my reply precisely as I wrote it. So when you hear from me, you're genuinely hearing from me.
A quick word on images: I use AI-generated art for posts because I'm not yet ready to be on camera as often as social media now expects, and because fantasy is about a kind of magic stock photos just can't capture. I never profit from it, I keep the style illustrated rather than photoreal, and I always disclose it.
My books, blog posts, and newsletter are written entirely by me—no exceptions; I only ever use AI to adapt that finished writing into posts. For more on that, see my process note.