Wel­come! The bite of autumn is in the air. I’m not very hap­py. I’m hop­ing for anoth­er warm stretch before the snow flies.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ In direct con­trast to last week’s song, I give you Tay­lor Swift’s We Are Nev­er Ever Get­ting Back Together.  If you don’t yet know, Tay­lor is known for writ­ing breakup songs after split­ting with her famous boyfriends. This one is report­ed­ly about Jake Gyl­len­haal.  It was filmed with one cam­era in one take, so keep that in mind:  I love it, but what’s with her band wear­ing Fur­ry costumes?

Work in Progress News ~ I moved a few scenes around on Dean’s sto­ry. I think I tried to add too many dra­mat­ic scenes in a row, and they start­ed to clash. Not much word count this week, I’ve been busy with the part time job. Let’s hope the stars align next week!

Back­list News ~ Did you know that you can buy one of my paper­back books, and get an ebook ver­sion free? Details are at Dark Moun­tain Books.

Indus­try News ~ Big news from Ama­zon, as they announced what I hint­ed at last week. Kin­dle Paper­white will be avail­able soon for $119, and they’re also show­ing off two new Kin­dle Fire mod­els. Kobo also announced new eread­ers, includ­ing a back­light­ed device, and a tablet. Isn’t this an excit­ing time to be a read­er? Also big news in the DOJ Ebook Set­tle­ment. A judge has approved the set­tle­ment, so now three US pub­lish­ers will have to nego­ti­ate new con­tracts with e‑book retail­ers, giv­ing them the pow­er to dis­count at will. Will be inter­est­ing to see how this plays out

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This week it was “tall josephine sexy”. I can usu­al­ly fig­ure out why terms found me, but that one stumped me.

Hero Quote ~ Mar­cus, from Posi­tion Secured:

“It was damn hard to con­cen­trate on that perp when I knew you were there. I don’t know how many times I won­dered if you were naked under that robe before I focused on my job.” 

Like the cinecov­er? Pret­ty cool, huh? Thanks to Booknib­bles for ani­mat­ing all my cov­ers.

What I’m read­ing ~ No time for any­thing new this week, so I’ve been re-read­ing some of my favorites. This one, Envy, is one of my favorites from my favorite author. So many twists in this roman­tic sus­pense that I couldn’t put it down if I want­ed to.