As I write this, Twitter – my social media platform of choice – is being driven to ruin by an overmoneyed idiot. I’m sticking around, for the time being, but it’s unclear if those of us too smart/poor/uninterested to buy a blue check will actually be visible for much longer. In the meantime, you can always find the best ways to reach my on my contacts page, but here’s all my online presences as of November 11, 2022. (I’ve got a Linktree if you want ’em quick, but that doesn’t have my pithy, snarky comments.)
Obviously, there’s my blog, but you’re already here so it seems indulgently recursive to link to it. Leave me comments, if you like, and I’ll see them.
The absolute best way to keep up with what I’m doing is to sign up for one of my two newsletters. If you’re here for my books, sign up for my author newsletter – I don’t email that much, only when I’ve got something new coming out, but you get a free novella, exclusive to subscribers! And if you’re more interested in my acting or sketch/script writing, you can sign up for my performing newsletter. Or do both! Why not!
But if you want a form of communication that’s a little less one-way, I’m on Twitter, so long as it stands, as @brianolsenbooks. I post there the most out of all social media, and my DMs are open!
On Instagram, I’m also @brianolsenbooks. I’m on there quite a bit as well, and my DMs likewise beckon you. I post mostly when I’m doing something interesting, like going to a comic con or drinking too much.
Because I’m old, I still have Facebook, and my author page there is www.facebook.com/brianolsenbooks. I’m on there quite a bit, though all I really do is link back to this blog. You have to pay for anybody to actually see any of your posts, and why the hell would I do that?
I’ve been resurrecting my Tumblr account in the wake of Göttertwitterung – I am, surprise, also @brianolsenbooks there. So far also just links back to this blog, but I used to be pretty active there, back when you could post dicks. (I didn’t post dicks, but I found it comforting that they were there.)
Years ago I made a Mastodon account and never used. Still haven’t posted anything, but I want a Twitter exit strategy in case it’s where we all wind up. I’m at https://mastodon.social/@brianolsenbooks. I have no idea how it works yet.
I have a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@brianolsenbooks. I haven’t done much with it – a couple of comedy videos, that’s about it. I’ll post more if I can get a little more than my current 11 subscribers (not that I don’t love them all). Honestly, you’ll see more of me at my sketch team’s channel, https://www.youtube.com/@15minutesaway. Lots of me acting and writing there! Why not subscribe to both?
And finally, I do have a TikTok, god of the elderly help me. I tried out making a few videos and decided it wasn’t for me, but I do follow other people on there, so follow me and maybe I’ll follow you back? If you must, I’m @brianolsenbooks.
That’s pretty much it, and isn’t it enough? I mean, I have a LinkedIn, but I don’t really use it, and I’m on Grindr but if you want to find me there you’ll have to come to the Bronx and try your luck. See you online!
