Woops. A bit late get­ting this post­ed. I hope you for­give me!

Favorite Song of the Week ~ This week I want to share a par­o­dy of a cov­er. If you’d like to check out last week’s post for the orig­i­nal, this might make more sense, but maybe not.

 Work in Progress News ~ I real­ly got mov­ing on my free read. I love the way it’s turn­ing out. Then my edi­tor sent me the first round of edits for Wyoming Solace. I knew this would be a tough one. Send my edi­tor your best wish­es. Or choco­late. Or both. Poor lady.

Back­list News ~ A new review for Pre­View! I love how that sounds hehe.  Ram­blings from a Chaot­ic Mind had this to say: “Coca’s writ­ing is strong and I did enjoy her abil­i­ty to draw you into a sto­ry. She lets you get into the char­ac­ters heads and you nev­er feel like you’re an out­sider look­ing in. It feels as if you are there. ”  Long time blog read­ers will remem­ber how I strug­gled to make Trevor nice, and it seems he’s still on the gruff side for some tastes. I should have tried whips and chains.

Indus­try News ~ One of my pub­lish­ers Samhain Pub­lish­ing is dip­ping its toe into the POD pool with the Espres­so Book Machine! This is like a POD vend­ing machine, where you order a book and it prints it while you wait! I would love to see one in action. The clos­est machine to me is almost a three hour dri­ve. Some day though.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~  How about this: “why is jake mar­ried retreat alan­na coca” Kin­da sounds like my moth­er giv­ing me the third degree. All I can say, dear Googler, is that you’ll have to read the book Retreat to find out, but I promise there’s noth­ing fishy going on at the V‑Bar Guest Ranch. Well, not too fishy.

What I’m read­ing ~ An anthol­o­gy called THREE, fea­tur­ing sto­ries by Lisa Andel, Bon­nie Dee, and T.A. Chase. This fea­tures three dif­fer­ent sto­ries about trios. Three total­ly dif­fer­ent sto­ries.  One is a m/m/f shifter, the next a m/m/m con­tem­po­rary, and the last a f/f/m con­tem­po­rary. This was the first taste of Ms. Andel’s writ­ing, but Bon­nie Dee and T.A. Chase are auto­buy for me, so it’s nice to see some works I had­n’t read. I like short sto­ries, espe­cial­ly when I’m sup­posed to be doing oth­er things…

Hero Quote ~ Just because I’m lazy, I like to pull a quote out of what­ev­er man­u­script I have open as I write this sta­tus update. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, Cody in Alan­na’s Wyoming Solace isn’t very talk­a­tive. I think I’ll be loos­en­ing his lips as I edit this pup­py. So until then, how about a quote from Mar­cus from Posi­tion Secured. This cop has just used Mar­i­ana’s win­dow as a van­tage point. Now the stand­off is over, and he wants some­thing else…

“…I need one thing from you first.” He didn’t con­tin­ue until she lift­ed heavy lids to meet that elec­tric blue stare. “Tell me your name.”

That’s when the fun starts.

Okay, that’s it for me this week. Back to edits! Right after I check Twitter.…