I hope all my fel­low Amer­i­cans had a great Thanks­giv­ing! I spent mine mak­ing a bunch of noise sur­round­ed by my huge fam­i­ly. The best part is…I still have a whole pie in the fridge! Good times.

Work in Progress News ~ This week I’ve been going over my very first book, Wyoming Solace. I want to rework a few scenes before Lin­da, my edi­tor over at Samhain gets a hold of it. There’s an entire plot thread I decid­ed to remove. It might short­en the book some, but I think it will be a bet­ter sto­ry in the end. I’m only about ¹⁄₃ of the way through. I hope this does­n’t take me too long, because I’ve got new sto­ries beg­ging to be written!

Indus­try News ~ One of the scari­est things to pop up in a long time, SOPA—the Stop Online Pira­cy Act—an anti-infringe­ment bill that’s work­ing it’s way through the U.S. House, while its com­pan­ion bill PIPA—Protect Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Act is in the hands of the Sen­ate. Oppo­si­tion has gone viral, with over a mil­lion emails hit­ting Con­gress. SOPA would give con­tent own­ers the abil­i­ty to shut down access to “rogue” sites, force Web reg­istries to block entire domains, and force banks and cred­it card com­pa­nies to stop doing busi­ness with sites accused of sup­port­ing or induc­ing infringe­ment, with just a court order. This would mean no more pic­ture shar­ing across the web, it could affect book excerpts on author sites…it could get real­ly ugly. Even Wikipedia would be in dan­ger, and I don’t know about you, but I LOVE my Wiki.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ I found it a lit­tle inter­est­ing that peo­ple found my site by search­ing for “silky red ted­dy” and anoth­er group of folks found Olivia by Googling “red satin back­ground”. Coin­ci­dence? Yeah probably.

What I’m read­ing ~ I read two short books last week, one is Revealed by Lis­sa Matthews. It’s book three of a tril­o­gy, but I did­n’t real­ize that when I pur­chased it. Luck­i­ly the book stands on its own, I just missed a bunch of the sex­u­al ten­sion and first meet­ing of these two.  I might just go back and read the oth­er two now. And yes, one does wear a kilt. This is the halting/awkward begin­nings of a D/s rela­tion­ship between these two guys. I enjoyed read­ing their dis­com­fort. I also read a quick­ie by Vivien Dean called Tis the Sea­son. This one felt more like the begin­ning of a tril­o­gy, as it left me beg­ging for more. Two divorced dads meet after a school func­tion for their kids. I real­ly liked these two char­ac­ters, and would love to read more about them –hint hint, Vivien.

Hero Quote ~ This is actu­al­ly inter­nal thought from Cody, the hero in Wyoming Solace:

You did it. You let her go. Con­grat­u­la­tions. Now get your ass back on your horse and get the hell out of here.

Favorite Song of the Week ~ Okay, it’s the time of year where I break out the Christ­mas music! So you’ll see my faves here for the next six weeks or so. This one is great, it’s by Straight No Chas­er, a twelve man acap­pel­la group. They have such fun with this song.

That’s it for me. Have a great week!

Wait, Thanks­giv­ing week? For reals? I do love Thanks­giv­ing. Food and I have a love/love rela­tion­ship, so any day ded­i­cat­ed to stuff­ing myself sil­ly is pret­ty much my favorite. Wel­come back, I’m ask­ing for read­er help this week on a lit­tle side project. I’ll do my beg­ging at the end though.

Work in Progress News ~ I just (lit­er­al­ly, just three min­utes ago as of post­ing this) wrote The End on my short con­tem­po­rary. It not only has a title, but it’s got an awe­some cov­er. What do you think? Booknib­bles does great work. I’m look­ing at a few pub­lish­ers for this guy. For more info, and to read chap­ter one, click the cov­ers. Next up–reworking Alan­na’s Wyoming Solace for republication.

Upcom­ing Release News ~ Last Call got its new cov­er! Isn’t it pret­ty? Booknib­bles tweaked the font a bit to show how HOT the book is! This book is com­ing out in March. I just received the ARC, and it’s beau­ti­ful. Samhain does love­ly work.

Indus­try News ~ Kin­dle just announced their delayed gift­ing pro­gram. Now I can buy a Kin­dle book as a gift, and tell Ama­zon when to deliv­er it. This is great for Christ­mas presents! On that note, if there’s any­one out there who’d like to give one of my books as a Kin­dle gift, I’ve got cov­er flats I can sign and send to the recip­i­ent so they have some­thing under the tree. Just drop me a line!

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ How about “touch sexy in bus”? Makes you think of Alan­na Coca, right?

What I’m read­ing ~ Usu­al­ly before bed I like to read a bit. Often I pick books I’ve already read so I don’t stay up all night long read­ing some­thing real­ly good. Well, dumb me, I picked up Josh Lany­on’s The Ghost Wore Yel­low Socks. I admit, when I first read the title, I pic­tured Tom Han­ks and his one red shoe, that’s how old I am. Any­way, this is a great mys­tery, com­plete with a haunt­ed house, seances, and a great cast of char­ac­ters. Then the love sto­ry, which is a great tale of oppo­sites attract. A very good read, but not when you think you can just read “a chap­ter or two and then go to bed at a decent hour”. That won’t happen.

Hero Quote ~ From Last Call, my new­ly cov­ered re-release:

“Look at me. You’re beau­ti­ful. Sexy. Fun­ny. Smart.” He licked her lips. “And you feel damn good around me. If there’s a man out there who can’t appre­ci­ate you for all that I can already see, then he’s a fool that you’re bet­ter off without.”

Favorite Song of the Week ~ Nina Does­n’t Care. By Susan Egan, Dis­ney’s Broad­way Belle. Have a baby, it’s an ego-check.

Thanks for stop­ping by! Now for my favor…I’m doing a lit­tle some­thing spe­cial for the Romance Times con­fer­ence next year. With­out giv­ing the whole thing away, let me just say I have some cov­er pho­tos, and I need some titles. Now, if they’re real­ly good titles, I might actu­al­ly write the book, but as it is, I just need the cov­er and title. I’ve got them post­ed on Google Plus and Face­book. If you could hop over to one of those sites and give me your opin­ions, you might win a back­list book!  Thanks in advance. Have a great week!

Wel­come! It’s a beau­ti­ful week­end here on top of this moun­tain. Well, as beau­ti­ful as it gets in Novem­ber. I’m not com­plain­ing, there’s no white stuff.

Work in Progress News ~ Folks, I’ve been on a roll! I’m well over 13K in this book that I meant to be only 15K com­plete. There’s a “dead zone” between 15K and 17K as far as pub­lish­ers go. Some don’t even accept books in that range, so I’ll have to tread light­ly here. I skipped one sex scene, and I’m wrap­ping up the HEA right now, so we’ll see where it ends up. I’d love to write “the end” on this guy this week­end, but I’m sched­uled  to work at the Evil Empire, so it might not hap­pen. Soon, though!

Indus­try News ~ It looks like Japan’s biggest inter­net retail­er pur­chased the  Kobo.  Since Rakuten already owns its own eread­er, the Pana­son­ic Raboo, this acqui­si­tion should make Rakuten one of the biggest play­ers in the ebook indus­try. They’re also open­ing up the Kobo to accept self-pub­lish­ers like Ama­zon’s KDP pro­gram.  Great news!

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ Some­one found Alan­na’s site by search­ing for “alan­na kook­blog”. Should I be offend­ed? Naw…kook is good, right?

What I’€™m read­ing ~ Haven’t had much time to read, so I picked up one of my old favorites. Some­times that’s just what I need to destress. It’s like putting on my favorite fuzzy slip­pers. Sweet Anger by San­dra Brown, orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in 1999 under one of her pen names.  This is just a clas­sic romance. The hero falls for her first, and takes his time win­ning her swoon. The ten­sion between these two is pal­pa­ble. They real­ly are at odds most of the book. My first copy of the book had the cov­er to the right. I’d read it so much I had to tape the spine togeth­er. Recent­ly on Twit­ter, I won (yes! Real­ly!) a new copy of Sweet Anger from San­dra, and I got her auto­graph! I’m such a fangirl.

Hero Quote ~ From the WiP I’m about to fin­ish. Still unti­tled, labeled as Grant:

“Last chance. I’m about to kiss you. This’ll change everything.”

Favorite Song of the Week ~ An oldie, but one that still touch­es me. This one by Sele­na, released mere months after the singer’s murder.

Beau­ti­ful. I love her voice.

That’s it for me this week. Have a great one!

Wel­come! I’m hav­ing a real hard time with putting Novem­ber in that title. I swear we just had Valen­tine’s Day! This year is pass­ing so quick­ly! Sor­ry I missed last week’s update, but  I was in the mid­dle of a blog hop with a ton of oth­er authors, so I put the sta­tus on hia­tus. Now I’ve got two weeks’ worth of news to share. Kin­da. Check out that wood pile. I’d be afraid to use any of that wood and ruin the work of art!

Work in Progress News ~ I did it again. I start­ed a new book before fin­ish­ing the one I was work­ing on (or the oth­er eight in the IP file) I wrote over 2K the first day I start­ed it, so it felt good to get some words in. This one is filed as Grant, and it will be a short sto­ry by Olivia involv­ing a boss and his employ­ee. I like to have shorts in the IP file, so if I fin­ish this one first, I’ll have to come up with anoth­er plot to keep my balance.

Back­list News ~ Retreat got a very nice five star review this week over at Man­ic Read­ers.  Alber­ta  says “I loved this ten­der and very poignant love sto­ry, Retreat that has loads of con­flicts, dif­fer­ing goals that must some­how mesh if they are ever to find hap­pi­ness togeth­er. I loved Jake as a mod­ern day hero who would do any­thing to get Andria back in his arms. Five Stars.“ Retreat is one of the books I wrote at the same time as two (maybe three?) oth­ers, and so often I for­get that I even had any­thing to do with it. It’s like my shy qui­et child being raised amongst wild monsters.

Indus­try News ~ Ama­zon announced its Kin­dle Own­ers’ Lend­ing Library, which is a ser­vice for Prime mem­bers only, and not every pub­lish­er is on board with this, but think of Ama­zon as a dig­i­tal library. Where you can only check out one book per month. And you have to be a club mem­ber to get in. But no late fees! I think it’s a great idea, and I hope my books are in the KOLL for the élite Ama­zo­ni­ans out there. (Look­ing into this) Barnes and Noble made their own announce­ment. It seems that with the mid-month release of the Nook tablet (rumored to be $249) , the Nook col­or mod­el will drop in price to $199. That’s good news for the nook­ies out there!

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This week Olivia got this one: “dot to dot pic­tures erot­ic”. I spent about five min­utes star­ing at that search term, won­der­ing what the per­son was actu­al­ly look­ing to find. Then I start­ed won­der­ing if there were any out there. Then I got a piece of paper to make my own. Then I thought about my kid find­ing it and actu­al­ly doing the dot to dot.  Then I shook my head.

What I’€™m read­ing ~ I read Cat Grant’s Once a Marine this week. This comes from the brand new dig­i­tal first pub­lish­er Rip­tide Pub­lish­ing. After read­ing this, and now that they’ve opened sub­mis­sions, I might just see what I can do to write some­thing wor­thy. Once a Marine is a love­ly sto­ry about a Marine dis­charged under DADT. This book is writ­ten in first and third per­son, that is to say the first per­son point of view for Marc, one hero, and the chap­ters in the oth­er hero Cole’s point of view are writ­ten in third. You’d think this would be con­fus­ing, but it isn’t, it was very smooth. Once a Marine is get­ting rave reviews, and is a best­seller at Ama­zon. Cat sure did a great job mak­ing Rip­tide look awe­some for their launch.

Hero Quote ~ From my newest WiP men­tioned above.

“I notice the way your heart beats like a rab­bit’s every time you come into my office. I notice how your pupils dilate when I get close to you. On the very best days I notice oth­er things.”

Favorite Song of the Week ~  Jack­son Foote and crew cov­ered Lil Jon’s Get Low <–might want to watch this first to get the full effect. I can’t get enough of this one. Both ver­sion­s NSFW!

That’s it for me, folks. I’m work­ing all week­end at the Evil Empire, where they’ve already start­ed pip­ing in Christ­mas Music. I guess we don’t need a Novem­ber anyway.

 It’s Sat­ur­day again! I’m late get­ting this up, thanks to Word­Press for my dai­ly col­lec­tion of gray hair. I know you’re all on pins and nee­dles, so  on with the update!

Work in Progress News ~ I’m in the mid­dle of merg­ing two works into one. I also whit­tled down my “in progress” file down to eight. Five for Alan­na, three for me. As I updat­ed both sites’ Com­ing Soon pages, I noticed that all eight of the wips are full length. I enjoy writ­ing novel­las, so I need to come up with a plot for a short­ie. Any ideas?

Indus­try News ~ Two bits of news this week. First, there’s news that the new Kin­dle OS will be com­pat­i­ble with HTML5, which is great news because that means the new Kin­dles will be able to read epub books with a lot few­er for­mat­ting issues. Also, how would you like a vir­tu­al book­store that looks like this:

Pret­ty cool huh? Makes the vir­tu­al book­store a more visu­al thing.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~  A cou­ple surfers found my web­site by search­ing for “erot­ic rid­ing” I sup­pose it’s a typo, but it could be a very inter­est­ing visual.

What I’m read­ing ~ Noth­ing new this week, but I did re-read a book by Cameron Dane, Some­thing New. It’s a real­ly good erot­ic menage with sus­pense elements.

A prod­uct of fos­ter care, sur­vivor Abby Gaines shields her heart and doesn’t believe in romance or love. Not even for Rodri­go San­ti­a­go and Braden Cren­shaw, the two men — friends — star­ring in her erot­ic fantasies.

Tough-as-nails Rodri­go wants Abby with a pas­sion. Just being near her makes him hard. To hide his desire, Rodri­go trades barbs and chal­lenges every­thing Abby says. Rodrigo’s secret? Recent­ly, some­one else has begun arous­ing het­ero­sex­u­al Rodrigo’s libido too. Anoth­er man. Braden Crenshaw.

Bisex­u­al, Braden has bounced between men and women in affairs that nev­er last. He’s tired of hurt­ing peo­ple but has nev­er believed ménage rela­tion­ships can work…until Abby and Rodri­go make him start aching for some­thing new.

When Abby begins dream­ing of her par­ents’ bru­tal dou­ble mur­der, the visions unearth new ele­ments that make Abby ques­tion every­thing she thought she knew about the crime. Once Braden and Rodri­go dis­cov­er the night­mares haunt­ing Abby, they vow to help her find answers to mys­tery and love whether she wants their assis­tance or not.

Cameron is one of my favorite con­tem­po­rary authors. There’s not a sin­gle book of hers that I read only once, and I’m lov­ing her shift toward RS.

Hero Quote ~ From Alan­na’s first nov­el, Wyoming Solace–Cody Campbell:

“You can rest now, Elise. No one will hurt you here.”  He spoke against her hair, not want­i­ng to relin­quish his posi­tion. “For once…just rest. Sleep well.”

Favorite Song of the Week ~   This video is what turned me on to Sick Pup­pies. Appar­ent­ly I’m not the only one. When one of the band mem­bers made this video as a gift to the man in the video, it went viral. I can’t say that the video helped launch the band, but it sure did­n’t hurt.

Beau­ti­ful, huh? And we don’t have enough female bass play­ers out there. Hear that, girls? Pow­er up those amps. Okay, that’s it for me. Back to merg­ing wips.

Have a great week, everyone!

Howdy! I know I’ve used this pic­ture before, but I like it. So it’s Sat­ur­day again. Here’s what I’ve been up to for the past sev­en days:

Work in Progress News ~ I had a great start to the week, with won­der­ful plans to keep on chug­ging away on the WiP of the week, Michael. This one is about a hor­rif­ic car acci­dent, and I just killed some­one. I guess I need to grieve before I can  move on. Yeah, that’s it.

Indus­try News ~ Lots of indus­try peeps are in New York today for the New York Com­ic Con. I doubt it would have any­thing for me, being a (most­ly) con­tem­po­rary romance author, but that did­n’t stop Cari­na Press from cel­e­brat­ing with a 40% off coupon this week­end only! Click here to vis­it the site, and just type in NYCOMICCON at check­out. What? That link goes right to the Pre­View book page? Well that’s handy. Also going full force in New Orleans is the first annu­al (hope­ful­ly) Gay­Rom­Lit Retreat. I’m see­ing lots of fun posts com­ing out of that.

Real Life News ~ The weath­er is actu­al­ly pret­ty nice. Maybe we’ll get an autumn this year! Not much news for this sec­tion this week. I’m sure you don’t want to hear about my den­tist appointment…

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ Oth­er than the con­tin­u­ing query of “tom sel­l­eck naked” which I believe I exac­er­bat­ed by writ­ing those words here last week (and this week too I guess) this week’s query win­ner is:  “libros de romance”, which reminds me of more news! I’ve enticed two Span­ish speak­ers to read my books and trans­late them into Span­ish! I’m very excit­ed about that prospect.

What I’m read­ing ~ I’m just going to list the book(s) that I read each week. I’m not review­ing them, but I won’t post them if I don’t like them. This week I read 18% Grey by Anne Teni­no. “In a future where the Unit­ed States has split along par­ty lines, Agent Matt Tennimore’s job is to get peo­ple out of the Con­fed­er­at­ed Red States, whether they’re cap­tured spe­cial ops agents from his own coun­try or gay CRS cit­i­zens who’ve peti­tioned for asy­lum. He nev­er expect­ed to have to retrieve his high school crush, aka the guy who ostra­cized him for being gay.“ A real­ly good read that I could­n’t fin­ish all in one night, which meant that I end­ed up dream­ing my own end­ing to the book. I admit Ms. Teni­no did a bet­ter job than my subconscious.

Hero Quote ~ From Josh Bradley, the hero from Olivi­a’s Tes­sa’s Pride:

“You taste amaz­ing. Even when you’re piss­ing me off.”

Favorite Song of the Week ~  Okay, Howard Jones showed up on my Twit­ter feed last week (I LOVE HIM!) I’d lost track of him over the past few years, rely­ing on his old stuff to keep me from crack­ing up (HoJo fans get it) Come to find he put a new album out a cou­ple years ago, found this song and just about melted.

Sigh. I had a teen­girl crush on him back in the day, and he still sends warm fuzzies to my insides.

Any­way, I hope you enjoyed  that as much as I do.

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.

It’s Octo­ber, and you won’t believe this but I’m sit­ting out­side right now, typ­ing up this post. Seri­ous­ly. Al Gore must be onto some­thing, we usu­al­ly have our first snow of the sea­son by now. knock on wood

I’m post­ing a pic­ture that I took a cou­ple days ago as I took a dri­ve up through the Curt Gowdy State Park. It’s real­ly a beau­ti­ful area.

Work in Progress News ~Great news! I just received a con­tract on my first m/m short sto­ry, Flipped! It’s so excit­ing. I’ll be sure to to post a blurb and excerpt soon on my books page. Woot!

Indus­try News ~ Kin­dle, Kin­dle, Kin­dle! Wow, great news com­ing out of Ama­zon this week. New Kin­dle ver­sions, includ­ing a tablet and touch-screen Kin­dle, and a great low price on the basic mod­el: $79. I did­n’t think I’d be able to get a Kin­dle for under $100 until at least 2013, so this is great news. Some­one remind me that I don’t need anoth­er read­ing device…

Real Life News ~ It’s post-sea­son base­ball time! Although this isn’t real­ly my real-life news, you’ll have to put up with my base­ball talk for the next few weeks. Any idea who will take it all? Those Phillies are pret­ty hot this year. Play wise, y’all.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ Some­one found Olivi­a’s site by search­ing for “Erot­ic Bun­ny” I nev­er know what to think.

Hero Quote ~ From Alan­na’s book Fine Print, a quote from the hero Derek:

“You just asked me sev­en­ty-two ques­tions about my per­son­al and med­ical his­to­ry. All I want to know is if you are going to be a capa­ble par­ent before I donate any of my seed. That’s a legit­i­mate request, don’t you think?”

Favorite Song of the Week ~  Fly, by Nic­ki Minaj fea­tur­ing Rihanna

I am not fly, I am lev­i­ta­tion. (Not sure what that means, but I like it)

That’s it for me this week. See you again next Saturday!

Howdy! It’s autumn in Wyoming, so the leaves are chang­ing col­or, and the air is get­ting brisk.  Here’s what I’ve accom­plished this week:

Work in Progress News ~ I haven’t writ­ten any­thing new in what feels like months! I just fin­ished tweak­ing Retreat. I’m hop­ing to get it up on the sales sites almost imme­di­ate­ly after the old ver­sion is pulled, but I’m not exact­ly sure how I’ll do with that tim­ing. There might be a lapse. Olivia got the offi­cial blurb for Last Call from Samhain Pub­lish­ing (their blurb guru is amazing)

Indus­try News ~ I love this week’s headline. Harper­Collins Pub­lish­ers Mak­ing 5000 Titles Avail­able Print on Demand. That’s great news! They’re the first of the “big six” to embrace POD pub­lish­ing. This will mean few­er “out of print” titles, larg­er avail­abil­i­ty, and a much hap­pi­er environment.

New York, NY, — In a first from a major trade pub­lish­er, Harper­Collins Pub­lish­ers today announced “Com­pre­hen­sive Back­list.” This pro­gram will allow all phys­i­cal book­stores, from the largest to the small­est, to pro­mote and sell the Harper­Collins back­list through in-store “Dig­i­tal-to-Print at Retail” (DPR) using the Espres­so Book Machine (EBM). The pro­gram will enable book­stores to offer thou­sands of trade paper­back books from the Harper­Collins cat­a­log through a mix of tra­di­tion­al­ly print­ed books and DPR, as space and cash flow restric­tions will no longer be a fac­tor. DPR edi­tions will be sold on an agency mod­el. It is expect­ed that the inde­pen­dent book­stores that already have the Espres­so Book Machine in place will join the program.

If you don’t know what the EBM is, click that link for a YouTube video. It’s the future of pub­lish­ing, y’all.
Real Life News ~ I got noth­in. I’m pret­ty much a bor­ing per­son late­ly. I actu­al­ly worked a whole bunch at my part time job this past week. I’ll blame my bor­ing-ness on that.
Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This week I got a whole lot of folks search­ing for cin­ema­graphs. Now there are plen­ty of those out there, but they end­ed up on my Cinecov­er page, where I’ve put all my new ani­mat­ed book cov­ers. Aren’t they gor­geous? I mean real­ly, why not have some fun with e‑book cov­ers? Thanks to Michael at Booknibbles.com for my new eye candy.

Hero Quote ~ From my untilt­ed work in progress:  “I don’t even know who I am.” Noah spoke through his teeth. “Do you know what that’s like? To not even rec­og­nize yourself?”

Favorite Song of the Week ~ A new one by Matt Nathanson. This one makes me smile.

 That’s it for me. I hope you all have a great week!

Whew! What a week. Well two since my last update. Here’s what I’ve been up to:

Work in Progress News ~ This past week I’ve been work­ing on Retreat. Going back through that book to kill the ellipses and tweak it for repub­lish­ing. This book is the one that I always for­get that I wrote. Poor lit­tle Retreat. It will be repub­lished at a new low price on Octo­ber 1.
New Release News ~ I guest blogged a few places this past week. I went to Travis Erwin’s place and inter­viewed Ryann, then shared my Pre­View Playlist over on James Stafford’s Why It Mat­ters blog. I also got a great review for Pre­View. Accord­ing to Romance Books Forum, Pre­view is “an amaz­ing, hot, excit­ing, roman­tic ten­sion filled, book with just enough con­flict, mys­tery, and sus­pense to keep me enthralled”. So thanks RBF!

Indus­try News ~ There’s a new rumor that Ama­zon is talk­ing with book pub­lish­ers about launch­ing a sub­scrip­tion ser­vice for dig­i­tal books, in which cus­tomers would pay an annu­al fee to access a library of con­tent. (Think Net­flix or Rhap­sody for ebooks) Not sure how that will work itself out. Espe­cial­ly with the NY6 atti­tudes about new and unusu­al things. I’ll keep my eyes open for more news though, I think it would be awesome.
Real Life News ~ Took a mini vaca­tion last week, and drove across the state to get to Yel­low­stone Nation­al Park and Grand Teton Nation­al Park. If you’ve nev­er been, you real­ly do need to make the trip. Judg­ing by the license plates, we were the only vehi­cle from Wyoming in the 100 mile radius. I heard a whole lot of Euro­pean accents and bus­loads of Japan­ese tourists.  I took the pic­ture above on our way home. I loved those mountains…
Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ This week I got “shhh im sleep­ing”. Don’t ask me where Google sent them, that’s just weird.
Hero Quote ~ From Retreat, my con­tem­po­rary western.

“Not a day went by that I didn’t think about you, but the nights were the worst.”

Favorite Song of the Week ~ Favorite Song of the Week ~ New stuff from David Guet­ta and Ush­er. So new it doesn’t have a real video, but stare at David’s album cov­er for the next 4 minutes:

Thanks for stop­ping by! Have a great week­end and upcom­ing week.