What? The last day of 2011?  It has been a good year to me. I’ve got three releas­es lined up for 2012, and plen­ty of wips to keep me busy.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ One Day, by Matisyahu, fea­tur­ing Akon. This song was played at the 2010 Van­cou­ver Win­ter Olympics:

Work in Progress News ~ I came up with a bril­liant plot idea. Unfor­tu­nate­ly I can’t start writ­ing it until I fin­ish Wyoming Solace. I’ve real­ly slacked over the hol­i­days, and since the kids are out of school and it is a hol­i­day, I’ve ratio­nal­ized my lazi­ness. I’m now about ³⁄₄ done with it though, and I hope to fin­ish by next Sat­ur­day’s sta­tus. Next on the list, a free read com­ple­ment­ing Retreat. It will act as a pre­quel, maybe 10K or so, noth­ing big, but just a lit­tle taste of the book.

Indus­try News ~ Sor­ry. Again, I have no inter­est­ing news. I’m sure there’s some out there…

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ 99% of the terms this week were pret­ty nor­mal. This one stuck out: “i asked him to come on my face erot­ic blog”. I refuse to even find out where that took them on Olivi­a’s site. Now that I’ve post­ed that sen­tence, I’m prob­a­bly ask­ing for more of the same.

What I’m read­ing ~ Okay, so San­ta brought me a Kin­dle. In fact, before he wrapped it and put it under my tree, he got on my com­put­er and loaded my TBR pile onto it. He’s so thought­ful! So yeah, while I’ve been slack­ing in the WiP area, I’ve more than made up for it in the TBR area. I read a few Christ­mas shorts, noth­ing that thrilled me too awful much. I think my favorite of the last two weeks was Want­i­ng, by Piper Vaughn. This is a free­bie over at All Romance Ebooks, but I’d for­got­ten that when I start­ed read­ing it. It’s very well writ­ten, and I enjoyed the premise. Kind of a May/December best friend’s lit­tle broth­er for­bid­den thing. Lots of lit­tle con­flicts, and sat­is­fy­ing emo­tion­al scenes.

Hero Quote ~ From Cody, the hero in Wyoming Solace.

“I won’t hurt you, Elise. I promise. You’re in charge here. I’ll fol­low your lead.”

Okay, that’s it for me. Let’s hope that by next week­end I’ll be able to say that I’m fin­ished with the rewrite. Every­one have a great New Year’s Day!