Yay, Silver, there you are. We missed you.

I'm on FB and rarely post personal info. I do use it as a professional networking tool. I'm a children's book writer and elementary school librarian, and just about everything I post has something to do with children's literature.

I have a professional site with my photo and contact information, and another resource site I run for children's writers with a bio, photo, and all sorts of how-to-find me information. If someone really wanted to track me down, it's not that hard. Just Google me and there I am. If fact, just as a point of illustration, I just Googled myself and there are accurate links as far as 17 pages in, including this gem, posted on my friend Katie Davis's website with advice for beginning children's writers:

http://katiedavis.com/blog/tag/chicken-butt/

From Roxyanne Young:

Do: Think way, way, waaaaaay outside the box.
Don’t: Forget that you’re a professional, all the time, no matter the venue. Act like one. (The Internet never forgets.)


Appropriate, yes?

Now, I'm kind of famous in the relatively tiny community of professional children's writers. In my actual personal life, hardly any of the people I interact with on a daily basis, including the teachers at my school, have any idea about the Rock Star me. Ha! I'm Clark Kent. Quiet children's librarian by day, rock star children's author by night. (Well, not quite rock star, but you get the idea). Just yesterday at a luncheon I was sharing some of it with a 5th grade teacher and she said, "Why don't we know this about you?" I've worked there for six years.

So privacy is relative, is my point. You share what you want to share. You keep private what you want to keep private.

I love this forum because we *can* share such intimate stuff. Hoohahs, indeed. No judging. Tons of constructive criticism, and sometimes tough love when it's needed. Really, this is the best community I know of online.

Love you people.

Roxy

(Of course, if you try any of the above-mentioned sites at the moment, you'll get an Internal Server Error. Godaddy is working on fixing it.)