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In this issue:

Commentary
Writing Tutorial
Favorite Web Site of The Week
Links

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Happy New Year to you! Welcome to the first issue of Author Tips of 2003.

One thing I learned (again) over the holidays is that I work best when I have firm goals and deadlines in front of me.

Most of my friends and readers are like that too I’ve discovered.

I began my holidays knowing I was going to have two “five day weekends”. Ahh, the idea of spending lots of time with the family, plenty of time off to get more articles written, finish my ebook, market the web site and do year-end financials.

Then real life hit. Before I knew it, Sunday December 29th had come and gone and I had not even written my to-do list yet. Christmas eve and day, oh yea, and the 26th too, was all devoted to family time and activities. It was great and relaxing.

But the next three days turned out to be filled with life’s unexpected surprises. I won’t waste you time with them all.

The following week, basically the same thing happened: real life. I had done my to-do list and promised myself (although not with the dogged determination I usually employ) to get them done.

I managed to get only two of those things done.

What happened? Important things and not so important things.

Bottom line is that I failed myself. My lack of commitment to my goals allowed me to flow with each little turn and twist of each day. In many respects it was easy and fun. The days ran by fast.

But I accomplished few of my primary goals.

The lesson learned for me (again), like many people, is that I work best with firm, committed deadlines. Drop dead conclusions to my action items.

And you? I’d love to hear how you accomplish your daily and weekly to-do lists. Please drop me an email and let me know your story. I’ll share it with our readers (if you give permission).

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Writing Tutorial

If you missed the first in the new series of tutorials, here it is:
http://www.knowledge-download.com/writing-ebook-tutorial1.html

If you missed the second in the series, here it is:
http://knowledge-download.com/writing-ebook-tutorial2.html

This week’s issue is located here:
http://knowledge-download.com/writing-ebook-tutorial3.html

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Favorite Web Site of the Week

This week, the answer to that is simple: YOUR website (if you have one!).

I’ve added a new form at Knowledge Download where you can fill in key information about your website. Upon review, I will publish a link to your site, in exchange for a link to Knowledge Download.

This helps us both. In the event you are unaware, links to your site are counted like “votes” by the search engines these days. One of the big goals of getting your website highly ranked in the likes of Google, MSN and Yahoo is to have great content along with lots of “inbound” links to your site.

In other words, by other sites link to yours, you gain higher search engine rankings.

Please take a moment and go to

http://knowledge-download.com/addebookurl.html

and fill in the form and let’s get linking!

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That’s it for this week. I hope you are enjoying Author Tips. If you have any feedback, suggestions or would like some free publicity, send it to me and we’ll print your question or comment and website or email address.

My best regards,

Skip

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Links

The main web site at knowledge-download

Our e-book writing articles

Learn about producing your ebook

Learn about publishing your ebook

Order your ebook website software and service

If you have any feedback for us, please send to . Send me feedback and I’ll publish it along with your URL in the next edition. (Can you say - free publicity?)

See you next week!