Ugh. Sep­tem­ber. That means snow is around the corner.

And that’s all I have to say about that.

Here’s what’s going on around here:

Work in Progress News ~ I’ve been spend­ing the week going through Olivi­a’s book Falling Star. I’ll be repub­lish­ing this one at a low­er price, so I had to go through and make sure there weren’t too many ellipses (uh…yikes. I kin­da went over­board with those things. Again.)

New Release News ~ Oh boy. You guys are gonna love this. Cari­na Press has a great pro­mo­tion going for Roman­tic Sus­pense books, includ­ing Pre­View which comes out on Mon­day!  I’m team­ing up with six oth­er Cari­na Press RS authors for a scav­enger hunt of sorts. Click the ban­ner and you’ll get more infor­ma­tion. (Post goes live Mon­day, but you nev­er know what you’ll find when you click that ban­ner…)Also, I’ll be guest blog­ging at a few dif­fer­ent places around the webosphere, I’ll be  sure to post links once they’re live.

Indus­try News ~ This is just a small seg­ment of the indus­try, but it’s big news for me and a ton of oth­er authors and read­ers. Ellora’s Cave Pub­lish­ing has dropped its prices on all EC books at the major dis­tri­b­u­tion sites like Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. EC has long been crit­i­cized for their inflat­ed dis­tro prices. For exam­ple Olivi­a’s only EC book At Ease, orig­i­nal­ly sold for $4.45 at the EC site, but $8.45 at Ama­zon. Now only $4.48! At Ease is a very short (17K) novel­la, so almost $8.50 was way too pricey in my opin­ion. So woohoo for EC! Wel­come to the age of the Kin­dle and Nook! (Like how I put my sub­lim­i­nal pimp in there?)

Real Life News ~ Kids are back in school, life has qui­et­ed down. This com­ing week­end I’m tak­ing them on a trip to Yel­low­stone, so maybe I’ll post some pic­tures after that. Oth­er­wise, my “real life” has just cen­tered around guest blog posts for next week and get­ting Falling Star ready for repub­bing. I guess that’s pret­ty bor­ing. Sorry.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ Some­one found AlannaCoca.com by search­ing for the word “hairy”. Wow. I hope my site was on page 768 for that search, but okay. Over at Olivi­a’s Place, I had this one: “because i’m worth it”. And I hope my site was on page one. In bold.

Hero Quote ~ Can’t help it. I’ve got to post some­thing from Pre­View, since it’s the birth­day book.

“I know a lot about you. I know now you’ve got me right where you want me. Close enough to prove how much I want you too.  I also know you start­ed this lit­tle fight just so I’d put my hands on you.”

 Favorite Song of the Week ~ My daugh­ter start­ed singing this the oth­er day, and it’s been stuck in my head since. Now watch­ing the hokey video, I think I’m done with it. What a riot!

 Okay, there’s your blast from the past for the week.

Also, I’m part of the JustRomance.Me blog hop this week­end. Join us HERE, we’re giv­ing away plen­ty of books, and we’ll be chat­ting on Mon­day, so you’ll have a chance to chat with a hand­ful of authors, and ask us what­ev­er you’d like to know. See you there!