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I hoped to have my five new books available for sale, but it’s crunch time and that’s looking less and less likely. Fingers crossed I’ll at least have copies of Max Loves Munecas to share with younger readers in…

The wait is over and I deeply thank you for your patience.

Jordyn and Jackson are back and going through their rollercoaster wild ride that has new twists and turns in Betrayed Series. If you haven’t picked up previous books, please click on this link (Amazon & Smashwords) and catch up!

This is the fourth installment of The City Boys Series of Betrayed Book One. An urban romance suspense where revenge is a dish best served cold.

In Betrayed Book One Part Four (City Boys Series) Jordyn has made the decision that she cannot under ANY circumstances see Jackson anymore, but unfortunately her body has not gotten the message. Leaving him was the hardest thing to do, but she knows her revenge must come first and she must keep a cold heart in order to pull off a successful con.

Now the con not only hinges on success…

Yesterday, we learned the ins and outs of pushing your new posts to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Today, we continue our tour of the Publicize universe with the three other social networks you can connect to from your WordPress.com account: LinkedIn, Tumblr, and Path.

The ability to share your content with different audiences quickly and easily will help you cultivate a healthy readership. Just as important, with Publicize you can tweak your sharing preferences so that each post reaches its intended destination: you can always choose which services to publish to, and what custom message to include (if any).

You can connect to these three services in exactly the same way, and from the exact same page, as the ones discussed yesterday. Simply visit Settings → Sharing in your dashboard, click “Connect” on the desired one, and authenticate your account in the window that opens. Once you’re done…

One of the hardest parts of doing strategic planning is just getting started. Where to begin? What approach should we use to pursue strategic planning for my library? Do I just tell the staff; “Next Monday we will have a managers meeting to begin our next strategic plan.” BOOM There it is. We’ve started! Sure. Go ahead and do that – IF YOU WANT TO ENSURE FAILURE.

If you stop to consider what all is in involved in conducting strategic planning, you’ll realize that it may not be the most complicated process, but it does take some deliberate organization and preparation. Expecting your staff to know what needs to be done to pursue a new strategic plan is expecting a lot, unless you have a highly motivated, highly collaborative, visionary and experienced staff. Those dozen or so libraries that meet this description have no worries. For the rest of us…