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The tough blow from last month… there has been an Internet storm of others feeling equally outraged.
Spent most of my time this month taking care of my niece. Maybe the election next month will bring more love and concern for others to the land on which I live.
On Wednesday, I got confirmation that a friend of mine passed away. I had a feeling he had, since he had been very bad off at the end. Still, it was hard finding out for sure.
And yup, I’m still in Twitter follow jail. Guessing I’ll need another 800 followers before I get out. Or I have to unfollow that many people. Ugh.
But I managed to cross off some of my goals for the year, so there’s that. And I have the schedule for the A to Z Challenge 2019 posted.
NaNoWriMo is coming! Click the cup for my profile & to be buddies.
The MAIN LIFE GOALS:
- Publish two decent-selling book series (speculative fiction)
- Survive at least another
3635for 2018!
There’s also the Bucket List:
- Publish a book and sell 2,000 copies of it in one week or 8,000 copies of it in one month.
- Watch a meteor shower while in the Cranberry Lake area of New York or Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania. (USA)
- Visit Mount Sinai.
- Skydive
- Learn how to play checkers.
- Take a hot-air balloon ride over Maine.
- Have dinner at Armando al Pantheon in Rome.
Current Writing End Goals
From the End Goals of an Author post.
- Self-publish Anah’s Story by March 20
- Find a way (emotionally, mentally) to complete the high fantasy short story.
- Redo the longer version of the tribal story, then self-publish it in 2018.

2018 Resolution:
#NewYearsResolution
- This year I resolve to be more engaged in my online writing community by regularly commenting on fellow writers blogs every month, leaving book reviews, and publishing another book.
Seven Focus Topics
I need to verify that I’m posting about these topics on a regular basis to keep my author brand strong.
I only have 3 other blog posts this month.
- Lenni Lenape (Native American) –0 posts
- storytelling –1 posts
- writing –1 posts
- legends — 0 posts
- characters — 1 posts
- urban fantasy/ speculative fiction — 2 posts
- read –1 posts
2018 Goals:
- Publish a book
- Keep supporting diverse books
- Be part of 5 blog hops/fests
- Keep rocking the Debut Author Spotlight at Operation Awesome
- Enter 3 writing contests
- Create a spreadsheet organizing my TBR by page length
- Participate monthly in Blog All About It Challenge
- Complete Reading challenges
- Try Something New
- Trope Challenge (weather being important to the story)
- Bookish Bingo
- 50 Book Pledge
- Goodreads
- Bout of Books 21 January
- Bout of Books 22 May
- Bout of Books 23 August
- TackleTBR
- Beat my Backlist – read 20 books from my TBR pile — 8 down
- Read 2 books selected by The Insecure Writer’s Support Group (Book Club) — 1 down
- Read 8 Speculative Fiction books — 8 down
- Read 8 Debut Author books — 4 down
- Read 10 Diverse books — 8 down

From NaNoProMo July catch-up:
Read:
- Inhale by Kendall Grey
- Envisioned by Nikki Sparxx
- The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky

Goals for November:
- NaNoWriMo
- Write 500 words a day #NovWritingChallenge
- Work on spreadsheet organizing my TBR by page length
- Read and review 3 books
- Comment on 30 blogs
- Comment on 14 ROADTRIP #AtoZChallenge blogs
- Write the Truth post
- Work on publishing a book this year
- Operation Awesome Pass or Pages
- Fix more Photobucket broken links
- Follow more All Author group members IF I GET OUT OF TWITTER JAIL
- Review-a-thon in BoutofBook-ers Facebook group

Entered! Fingers crossed.
Review of Goals for October:
- Read and review 5 books
- Prepare for NaNoWriMo
- Work on spreadsheet organizing my TBR by page length
- Comment on 30 blogs
- Read, Review, and discuss The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
- Comment on 14 ROADTRIP #AtoZChallenge blogs
- WEP CHALLENGE FOR OCTOBER – DEJA VU OR VOODOO
- Write the Trees post
- Submit story to IWSG anthology
- Work on publishing a book this year
- Write 500 words a day #OctWritingChallenge
- Find more 2 more Debut Authors for 2018
- Fix more Photobucket broken links
- Follow more All Author group members IF I GET OUT OF TWITTER JAIL
- Review-a-thon in BoutofBook-ers Facebook group

NOW FILLING 2018 SLOTS!
Please share the debut author image. Thank you!

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Great goals. Like the bucket list too. Nice.
Your image on the left side is not showing it is giving a fail face.
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Thank you!
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I forgot to say it is the new author at the end image on the left.
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I’m not sure how to fix it as I can see it. But I thank you for the heads up.
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I’m sorry about your friend. It’s really hard to lose someone close to you like that. Thinking of you.
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Thank you. <3
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