Hap­py Sat­ur­day! I hope yours start­ed bet­ter than mine, I woke up to the first snow­fall of the sea­son. Ugh. Just think, last week I was sit­ting on my porch in shorts. At least it wait­ed until Octo­ber this year, I real­ly should­n’t com­plain, but I’m going to any­way. I’m not leav­ing the house.

Work in Progress News ~ Well, I fin­ished rework­ing my back­list, they’re all back up for Kin­dle, Nook, and com­ing soon to iTunes etc. While I wait for the first round of edits for Olivi­a’s Last Call, I real­ized that I could actu­al­ly write some­thing new. It took a few hours to get used to the idea, and after look­ing through all twelve of my works in progress, I start­ed pick­ing at one. The next day I decid­ed to take that orig­i­nal idea and tweak it a lit­tle bit, so guess what I did? Yep. Start­ed num­ber 13. Well, more like 12.5, because I might be able to merge the orig­i­nal and this new one. We’ll see. Such are the joys of pantsing.

Indus­try News ~ Auto­g­ra­phy is out! Looks like a great app for authors to take their iPads to book sign­ings. This has been in devel­op­ment since May, and it’s final­ly avail­able to the public.Kind of. So far it’s just for the iPad, and it looks like you’ll have to buy the book through the Auto­g­ra­phy store (which I’m unable to find a link for) and there’s no word on cost or avail­abil­i­ty. Okay, let’s call this a Pseu­do-launch, and I’ll be pseu­do-excit­ed since I won’t be able to use it quite yet, but let’s hope there are some devel­op­ers out there who want to share the love with the rest of us. I’m all signed up for Author­graph, and maybe I can fig­ure out a way to use my tablet and sty­lus to sign a book…hmm.…

Real Life News ~ Well, the Yan­kees did­n’t win the ALDS, so you won’t have to hear me go on about base­ball until next year. Also, like I said ear­li­er, it’s snow­ing, so get ready for some big whiny posts where I won­der why I live on top of this moun­tain. I did get a chance to read a cou­ple of great books this week. Inti­mate Whis­pers by Dee Car­ney just came out, and I real­ly liked it. I also have San­dra Brown’s Lethal on my desk taunt­ing me. I haven’t read a hard­cov­er book in so long, I have a feel­ing I’ll try push­ing invis­i­ble but­tons to turn the page.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This week’s is a clas­sic. “some­one get­ting dis­tract­ed” found Olivi­a’s site. I must have men­tioned my lack of focus over there once or twice.

Hero Quote ~ From Olivi­a’s recent­ly con­tract­ed book Flipped, a quote from Mario Gutierrez:

“You’re my best friend. You can tell me to leave. Just say the word and I’ll go down­stairs and we’ll for­get I ever opened that door. We can blame the liquor. Or God please tell me it’s okay. Tell me you want this too, and let me kiss you.”

Favorite Song of the Week ~  OK Go has some awe­some videos. This isn’t their lat­est, but I think it’s their great­est. Enjoy This Too Shall Pass, the Rube Gold­berg Version.

They had to do that all in one take. I’m sure it took more than one try, but that’s sim­ply amaz­ing. I love OK Go.

Okay, that’s it for me. Back to my snowy work in progress. I guess I’ll thank Moth­er Nature for pro­vid­ing the atmosphere.