I know how it is. You’ve been meaning to grab a copy of my newest play, Daddy Issues, but you kept forgetting. Well, now you really have no excuse.

While the play is normally a mere 99 cents, from January 9th through 13th, you can grab the whole thing completely for free. That applies no matter how many people download and you don’t even need a coupon or anything fancy. Just follow this link and the whole play will be yours in a few clicks.

Download a copy for yourself and then make your father grab one too. (This play is a real Dad pleaser.) Heck, get all your theatre buddies to snag a free copy or every random person you know! No matter how many copies go out, the entire play is still free to anyone and everyone during this 5 day promotion. Pretty neat, huh?

Don’t have a Kindle? Here’s how to read your free copy on your computer, cell phone or tablet.

Oh and if you do take advantage of this free copy promotion, I’d greatly appreciate your taking a moment to write up a brief review of the book on Amazon!

But, remember, you only have until Friday the 13th to take advantage of this offer so you should probably go grab your free copy right now before you forget again.

Don’t read all the sites I blog for? Here’s what you missed in the last week outside of HillaryDePiano.com.

• E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review January 7, 2012
  Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: HOT ITEM: Air Jordan 11 Retro “Concord” on eBay Since the release of the AIR JORDAN 11 RETRO “CONCORD” on December 23rd, there has been quite a frenzy over these retro kicks. Now that [...]
• How to embed a preview of your Kindle book directly into a webpage or blog post
  Sometimes the best tool you have to market your eBook is the content of your book itself. Readers can already download a free preview of any Kindle book through Amazon but you can do one better. You can actually embed the Kindle Cloud Reader into your website or blog itself so that your potential customers [...]
• Hotel Information posted for 2012 My Little Pony Convention in Orlando, FL on July 7th & 8th
  Looking to get an early start on your MLP Fair plans? The My Little Pony Convention website just launched for the year and hotel information has already been posted. While you can’t order tickets or reserve booth space yet, now’s the ideal time to reserve your room at the discounted rate! Share:
• Fill in the blanks
  The original My Little Pony and Friends animated TV show is to Friendship is Magic as _______ is to _________. Share:
• New Year. Clean slate. Same old cluttered desk.
  Guys… you should see my office. I’m too embarrassed to even take a picture. As I navigated my way through the chaos for my first real full day of work yesterday, I realized something. We tend to think of the New Year as a fresh beginning. A clean slate. And you know I’m a big fan of [...]
• Writers & Sellers: Don’t throw out that useful plastic backing from last year’s Page-a-Day calendar!
  I’m a big fan of those daily calendars where you peel off a page for every day (and can use the backs of past days for To Do Lists and drink coasters) and around this time every year, I find myself with a problem. I get myself a new calendar, tear off the final pages [...]
• Download No Secret: a parody of Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret free for one week only
  After all the fun and festivities of the holiday season, the first day back to work after the new year is always rough. It feels like a bad joke that they actually expect you to work. Well, we wanted to … Continue reading →
• E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review December 31, 2011
  Straight from the source, here’s what happened in the world of e-commerce, social networking and selling online in the past week: December’s “On The Rise” Partner is ThePortraitArt Congratulations to Xiaonan, the talent behind the portraits featured on ThePortraitArt. This channel received the most votes for the December On The Rise poll, and will be [...]

Posts above were published in the last week on TheWhineSeller.com, MyLittlePonyCollecting.com, PricedNostalgia.com and CultofCummings.com.

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I promised everyone in my NaNoWriMo area that I’d take requests if there was a topic they wanted a blog post about. So, one intrepid Wrimo asked:

Adjusting to life after NaNo is HARD. I’ll have to remember this icky feeling I’ve had all December for next year…the whole “not writing because I’m trying to get holiday stuff done and I deserve to relax, but it’s all making me feel miserable and unproductive” lethargy and just keep writing come December.

So here we are. Because we’ve all been there. NaNoWriMo can be stressful and annoying while your in it but once it’s over… you kind of miss it no matter how badly you need a break. And then you crash land in the middle of the holiday season so you simply trade one kind of stress for another. It’s a relief to not be writing while you’re running around buying presents, decorating and doing the usual holiday stuff but, at the same time, not having the time to write at all gives you this feeling of failure after spending 30 days living and dying by the word count. And if you don’t write a single word all December, you do feel like a word-less failure when the dust settles in January.

The simplest cure for a NaNoWriMo hangover is hair of the dog. Whenever you can eek out time, do some writing. Ideally you want to keep working on your NaNo novel in progress but, really, any writing will do to keep your creatives juices lubricated. Blog posts, diary entries, stream of consciousness journals from the perspective of one of your characters… write anything at all, especially if you can do a little bit each day. A little bit is always better than nothing.

While stolen moments of writing may be all you can afford during a busy time like the holiday season once you settle back into “ordinary time” you should set yourself a writing goal. Do you want to set a date deadline to finish the novel by or just an overall word count goal per day, week or month? That’s up to you and your writing goals. But having a NaNoWriMo like goal to keep you productive and focused will help to chase away the NaNo blues. You may not accomplish as much in the ordinary time as you did during National Novel Writing Month but forming consistent writing habits is the best thing that you can do for yourself as a writer.

But that’s just my advice. I’m hoping other writers and NaNoWriMo veterans will weigh in with their advice to combat Post NaNoWriMo Letdown Syndrome.