{"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>January is flying by. I guess that&#8217;s good, I can&#8217;t wait for warmer weather. I can&#8217;t complain too much though, this winter has been mild for the most part <em>knock on wood<\/em> Also, baseball season is coming up! I know you&#8217;re all as excited as I am about this. I&#8217;ve got a Swedish exchange student living at my house who has (get this) never seen a baseball game. Doesn&#8217;t that just hurt your heart? Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m taking care of the situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/span><\/strong> Etta James passed away early Friday morning. She will be missed. Here is the song that made her famous: At 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 chugging away on Dean&#8217;s story. Book two in the Earth Scents series. I had a great name for my hero, but now I can&#8217;t use it. Lots of reasons why. I&#8217;m blogging at <a href=\"http:\/\/romancewritersbehavingbadly.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RomanceWritersBehavingBadly<\/a> on Monday 1\/23\/12. You can help me out with my angst over there.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Industry News ~<\/strong><\/span> Besides the big Apple announcement regarding a user friendly interface to upload ebooks to iTunes (which looks to be for textbooks, not fiction) the only news I have to share is that the big Print On Demand (POD) publisher Createspace (aka Amazon&#8217;s POD wing) did some tweaking on their end. This makes paperback books sold through them earn a lot more royalty! I celebrated by lowering the retail of all my paperback books some by almost three dollars! Plus, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/darkmountainbooks.com\/paperback-purchase-includes-ebook-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Mountain Books<\/a>, we&#8217;re offering a &#8220;buy the paperback, get the ebook free&#8221; promotion. It&#8217;s like buying a DVD and getting the digital format for your portable device!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Search Term of the week aka How People Found My Websites ~\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> I&#8217;m sharing three this week. To this person:\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;dowload tessa pride on to your nook for free&#8221;, I wish you wouldn&#8217;t (subtext implied) And &#8216;download&#8217; has an N in it. To this person: &#8220;earth scents 2 brynn&#8221; I&#8217;m working on it! See above. To the two people who found my site by searching for &#8220;fun contemporary romance authors&#8221;, I 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&#8217;m reading ~<\/span><\/strong> I read a very good one this week. And again, it&#8217;s book two of a series, and I didn&#8217;t realize it until halfway through this one. It&#8217;s okay, it stands alone just fine. This is an older man younger man romance, and K.A. Mitchell is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. Here&#8217;s a snippet that I just have to share. I don&#8217;t even need to set this up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;C&#8217;mon. I&#8217;ll take you downtown for some pie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How heteronormative&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t have pie on Thanksgiving because straight people do?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fine. Have pie. I want crepes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone who can give her characters personality through four sentences is my kind of author. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m off to read book one now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hero Quote ~<\/span><\/strong> From the unnamed hero in the unnamed work in progress mentioned above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m not pouting about being single. I like being single. I just don&#8217;t want to see your lovey dovey crap. You&#8217;re my little sister for Christ&#8217;s sake.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay boys and girls. I&#8217;m off to do wild author things (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/oliviabrynn\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>) so you all play nice. Have a 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>January is flying by. I guess that&#8217;s good, I can&#8217;t wait for warmer weather. 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