{"id":2764,"date":"2012-01-21T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:20","slug":"saturday-status-12112-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/saturday-status-12112-2","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 1\/21\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4840\" title=\"Not sure what this picture has to do with anything in the post, but I liked it.\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2458631_blog-300x225.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<p>Jan\u00adu\u00adary is fly\u00ading by. I&nbsp;guess that\u2019s good, I&nbsp;can\u2019t wait for warmer weath\u00ader. I&nbsp;can\u2019t com\u00adplain too much though, this win\u00adter has been mild for the most part <em>knock on wood<\/em> Also, base\u00adball sea\u00adson is com\u00ading up! I&nbsp;know you\u2019re all as excit\u00aded as I&nbsp;am about this. I\u2019ve got a&nbsp;Swedish exchange stu\u00addent liv\u00ading at my house who has (get this) nev\u00ader seen a&nbsp;base\u00adball game. Does\u00adn\u2019t that just hurt your heart? Don\u2019t wor\u00adry, I\u2019m tak\u00ading care of the situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/span><\/strong> Etta James passed away ear\u00adly Fri\u00adday morn\u00ading. She will be missed. Here is the song that made her famous: At&nbsp;Last:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_1uunRdQ61M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"40\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Work in Progress News ~<\/strong><\/span> Still chug\u00adging away on Dean\u2019s sto\u00adry. Book two in the Earth Scents series. I&nbsp;had a&nbsp;great name for my hero, but now I&nbsp;can\u2019t use it. Lots of rea\u00adsons why. I\u2019m blog\u00adging at <a href=\"http:\/\/romancewritersbehavingbadly.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RomanceWrit\u00aders\u00adBe\u00adhav\u00ading\u00adBad\u00adly<\/a> on Mon\u00adday 1\/23\/12. You can help me out with my angst over&nbsp;there.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Indus\u00adtry News ~<\/strong><\/span> Besides the big Apple announce\u00adment regard\u00ading a&nbsp;user friend\u00adly inter\u00adface to upload ebooks to iTunes (which looks to be for text\u00adbooks, not fic\u00adtion) the only news I&nbsp;have to share is that the big Print On Demand (<span class=\"caps\">POD<\/span>) pub\u00adlish\u00ader Cre\u00adate\u00adspace (aka Ama\u00adzon\u2019s <span class=\"caps\">POD<\/span> wing) did some tweak\u00ading on their end. This makes paper\u00adback books sold through them earn a&nbsp;lot more roy\u00adal\u00adty! I&nbsp;cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00aded by low\u00ader\u00ading the retail of all my paper\u00adback books some by almost three dol\u00adlars! Plus, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/darkmountainbooks.com\/paperback-purchase-includes-ebook-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Moun\u00adtain Books<\/a>, we\u2019re offer\u00ading a \u201cbuy the paper\u00adback, get the ebook free\u201d pro\u00admo\u00adtion. It\u2019s like buy\u00ading a&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">DVD<\/span> and get\u00adting the dig\u00adi\u00adtal for\u00admat for your portable device!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Search Term of the week aka How Peo\u00adple Found My Web\u00adsites ~\u00c2&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong> I\u2019m shar\u00ading three this week. To this person:\u00c2&nbsp;\u201cdowload tes\u00adsa pride on to your nook for free\u201d, I&nbsp;wish you would\u00adn\u2019t (sub\u00adtext implied) And \u2018down\u00adload\u2019 has an N&nbsp;in it. To this per\u00adson: \u201cearth scents 2&nbsp;brynn\u201d I\u2019m work\u00ading on it! See above. To the two peo\u00adple who found my site by search\u00ading for \u201cfun con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary romance authors\u201d, I&nbsp;love you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bad-Boyfriend-ebook\/dp\/B005GQUA0I\/?tag=alannacoca-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4834\" title src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BadBoyfriend72sm.jpg\" alt width=\"133\" height=\"200\"><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">What I\u2019m read\u00ading ~<\/span><\/strong> I&nbsp;read a&nbsp;very good one this week. And again, it\u2019s book two of a&nbsp;series, and I&nbsp;did\u00adn\u2019t real\u00adize it until halfway through this one. It\u2019s okay, it stands alone just fine. This is an old\u00ader man younger man romance, and K.A. Mitchell is quick\u00adly becom\u00ading one of my favorite authors. Here\u2019s a&nbsp;snip\u00adpet that I&nbsp;just have to share. I&nbsp;don\u2019t even need to set this&nbsp;up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>C\u2019mon. I\u2019ll take you down\u00adtown for some&nbsp;pie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>How het\u00adero\u00adnor\u00adma\u00adtive\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>I can\u2019t have pie on Thanks\u00adgiv\u00ading because straight peo\u00adple&nbsp;do?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>Fine. Have pie. I&nbsp;want crepes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any\u00adone who can give her char\u00adac\u00adters per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty through four sen\u00adtences is my kind of author. \u00c2&nbsp;I\u2019m off to read book one&nbsp;now\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hero Quote ~<\/span><\/strong> From the unnamed hero in the unnamed work in progress men\u00adtioned above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2&nbsp;\u201cI\u2019m not pout\u00ading about being sin\u00adgle. I&nbsp;like being sin\u00adgle. I&nbsp;just don\u2019t want to see your lovey dovey crap. You\u2019re my lit\u00adtle sis\u00adter for Christ\u2019s sake.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay boys and girls. I\u2019m off to do wild author things (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/oliviabrynn\" target=\"_blank\">Twit\u00adter<\/a>) so you all play nice. Have a&nbsp;great weekend!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1112\" title=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/olivia.png\" alt width=\"144\" height=\"70\"><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan\u00adu\u00adary is fly\u00ading by. I&nbsp;guess that\u2019s good, I&nbsp;can\u2019t wait for warmer weath\u00ader. I&nbsp;can\u2019t com\u00adplain too much though, this win\u00adter has been mild for the most part knock on wood&nbsp;Also,&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WdCY-IA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}