I got­ta say, April 2012 was a great month for me. I’m sor­ry to see it go. May? Bring it on.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ I bet you nev­er thought you’d see a Justin Bieber song on my FSotW. Well maybe you did, because my tastes are pret­ty eclec­tic. But I found myself danc­ing to this, and only lat­er found out it was by the boy won­der. This cer­tain­ly does­n’t sound like his oth­er stuff. I guess there’s no offi­cial video yet. Whad­dya think?

Work in Progress News ~ I’ve been slow­ly work­ing on my pilot sto­ry. I usu­al­ly name my WiPs my hero’s name until I can come up with a good one, but I haven’t even named my hero yet! I like to wait until his per­son­al­i­ty shows through. Know any good pilot names?

Back­list News ~ After the release of Flipped last Sat­ur­day, I’ve been hop­ping from blog to blog pro­mot­ing. I also got some real­ly good reviews from Brief Encoun­ters (B-) Hearts on Fire Reviews (4 Hearts) MM Good Reviews (5 Hearts) and QMO Books (No rat­ing giv­en) Not bad, eh?

Indus­try News ~ The Sci-Fi pub­lish­er Tor (Also Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen) announced this week that “by ear­ly July 2012, their entire list of e‑books will be avail­able DRM-free.” That’s great news! I hon­est­ly don’t think DRM does any­thing but pun­ish hon­est read­ers, so I’d like to see DRM go the way of the 8‑Track.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ I hope I was on page fifty or so on this one, because I don’t see myself in this at all. “what is a romance nov­el that the char­ac­ter is a mata­dor” What do you guys think?

What I’m read­ing ~ I’ve read two great books this week. I’ll tell you about one of them, and save the oth­er for a week where I don’t read any­thing new. I read With the Band by L.A. Witt. I actu­al­ly pur­chased this dur­ing the RT Con­fer­ence ear­li­er this month. I sat next to the author as we imbibed in some black­ber­ry brandy. She start­ed telling me about this book, and I whipped out my Kin­dle and bought it on the spot. That’s called “Bar Mar­ket­ing.” Look it up. I just invent­ed it. With the Band is about the lead singer and bass play­er in a rock band. Lots of ten­sion in this one, includ­ing the fact that both heroes are still in the closet.

Hero Quote ~ One of my unnamed pilot hero’s ear­ly lines:

“We’ll be in the air soon, and you can catch anoth­er pow­er nap.” He grinned, show­ing off a set of straight white teeth. “That’s when I catch mine.”

He’s jok­ing! Of course he’s jok­ing. I hope you all have a great weekend!