What My Top 5 Focus Tasks Are

Last year, I wrote a post that discussed the merits of picking your Top 5 Tasks/Projects to focus on. We are easily distracted by Shiny Object Syndrome that has us flitting from one thing to another and actually gaining enough focus to truly commit to a project or task can be hard. The premise of the 5 Focus Tasks is that these are the ones you truly commit to and you DO NOT take on any other tasks until these are completed.

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Flash Fiction: The Dragon

Once again, I was invited to take part in an Indie Authors Writing Advent Calendar run by author Katharina Gerlach.  The topic for the Flash Fiction was "Dragons". After the Advent Calendar was completed in December, we were able to post our stories online on our own sites.  So in my continued effort to push my comfort zone boundary, I am sharing my new Flash Fiction here on my blog.  Hope you enjoy!  

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20 Things I Want To Share With You About Blogging

Happy Thursday!  This will be my last post in The Blogger Series.  I have loved writing this series and was overwhelmed with how popular it became and how many questions and comments I received from people who found the information useful. Both those who are thinking about starting a blog as well as those who already have one.  I hope that those who have been considering starting one, find it a little less daunting now.

Book Piracy: Why Does it Happen and What Can We Do to Stop It? #MPBooks

I actually decided to bounce my previously planned blog post as I really wanted to reblog this piece by my friend Cat, discussing Book Piracy.

Check it out and do look through her blog, it’s full of great content. I’ll be back on Monday with another #MondayMarketing post 🙂

Have a great weekend.

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Last week a new website became a hot topic on Twitter.  The website offers free downloads of digital books, many of them by some very well known authors, but it does this without the permission of those authors or their publishers.  The website is offering pirated copies of books, and many are willing to take them, but is there anything that can be done to stop this piracy, and can the reasons people give for distributing or taking pirated books ever be justified?

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