{"id":35,"date":"2012-04-07T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:19","slug":"saturday-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/saturday-status","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/300px-Cadbury-Mini-Eggs-Wrapper-Small.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"36\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/saturday-status\/300px-cadbury-mini-eggs-wrapper-small\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/300px-Cadbury-Mini-Eggs-Wrapper-Small.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,208\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"300px-Cadbury-Mini-Eggs-Wrapper-Small\" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/300px-Cadbury-Mini-Eggs-Wrapper-Small.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/300px-Cadbury-Mini-Eggs-Wrapper-Small.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36\" title=\"300px-Cadbury-Mini-Eggs-Wrapper-Small\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/300px-Cadbury-Mini-Eggs-Wrapper-Small.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"208\"><\/a>Wel\u00adcome! Hap\u00adpy East\u00ader Week\u00adend! I&nbsp;hope you\u2019re hav\u00ading a&nbsp;great time gorg\u00ading on jel\u00adly beans and cr\u00e8me eggs. I&nbsp;don\u2019t know about you, but I&nbsp;think East\u00ader has the best can\u00addy of all the hol\u00adi\u00addays. Each year I&nbsp;stock up on these&nbsp;guys\u2013&gt;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve nev\u00ader tried them, you haven\u2019t lived. Also, if you\u2019ve nev\u00ader tried them, don\u2019t start. I&nbsp;can\u2019t take the com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion in the stores any\u00admore. Already they sell out with\u00adin hours of being stocked onto the shelves. (Mouth is water\u00ading right now!) But enough of that. Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve done all&nbsp;week:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/span><\/strong> Okay, this is fun\u00adny right&nbsp;here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENnAa7rqtBM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"653\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s not very Eas\u00adt\u00ader\u00adish, but it has a&nbsp;bun\u00adny!! Good luck get\u00adting rid of that ear\u00adworm, by the&nbsp;way\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"39\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/saturday-status\/promo-magnet\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Promo-Magnet.png\" data-orig-size=\"213,218\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Promo-Magnet\" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Promo-Magnet.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Promo-Magnet.png\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39\" title src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Promo-Magnet.png\" alt width=\"213\" height=\"218\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Work in Progress News ~<\/span><\/strong> Well again, I&nbsp;did\u00adn\u2019t get many words in on Dean\u2019s sto\u00adry, but I\u2019ve been get\u00adting ready for the Romance Times Booklover\u2019s Con\u00adven\u00adtion, which starts on Wednes\u00adday! I\u2019ll be fly\u00ading out of the windi\u00ader city to the Windy City on Tues\u00adday. I&nbsp;sim\u00adply can\u00adnot wait. \u00c2&nbsp;I&nbsp;made some nifty mag\u00adnets with my logo on them. I\u2019m pret\u00adty proud of me, and my crafty self! I&nbsp;can\u2019t take cred\u00adit for the idea tho, I&nbsp;got a&nbsp;mag\u00adnet just like this from a&nbsp;Scentsy lady. \u00c2&nbsp;<img data-attachment-id=\"40\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/saturday-status\/promo-cd\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Promo-CD.png\" data-orig-size=\"228,204\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Promo-CD\" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Promo-CD.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Promo-CD.png\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40\" title src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Promo-CD.png\" alt width=\"228\" height=\"204\">Then I&nbsp;put my free reads on a&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">CD<\/span> (and added a&nbsp;bonus nov\u00adel on ran\u00addom discs) and burned my logo on the front. Pret\u00adty cool look\u00ading, yeah? Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/booknibbles.com\" target=\"_blank\">booknibbles.com<\/a> for the way awe\u00adsome and use\u00adful&nbsp;logo<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Indus\u00adtry News ~<\/strong><\/span> Back in 2010, Google put its feel\u00aders out into the indy book mar\u00adket, sell\u00ading ebooks via a&nbsp;beta pro\u00adgram. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/google-to-end-ebook-reseller-program_b49672\" target=\"_blank\">Google is pulling the plug<\/a> on that pro\u00adgram as it intro\u00adduced the new Google Play for\u00admat. I&nbsp;guess the rev\u00adenue just was\u00adn\u2019t&nbsp;there.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Search Term of the week aka How Peo\u00adple Found My Web\u00adsites ~<\/strong><\/span> This one has popped up in var\u00adi\u00adous forms over the weeks, and I&nbsp;thought I&nbsp;should address it. \u201cretreat by alan\u00adna coca detailed review\u201d I\u2019ve also seen \u201cAlan\u00adna Coca Retreat detailed syn\u00adop\u00adsis\u201d and \u201cRetreat spoil\u00aders\u201d. It seems that the fact that the hero Jake is mar\u00adried in the book Retreat is giv\u00ading some read\u00aders the willies. I&nbsp;won\u2019t post a&nbsp;detailed review or spoil\u00aders any\u00adwhere online, lest I&nbsp;spoil it for oth\u00aders, but I&nbsp;am more than hap\u00adpy to answer your ques\u00adtions about Retreat via email. I&nbsp;can be reached at alanna@alannacoca.com. I&nbsp;love to hear from my readers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/riptidepublishing.com\/titles\/power-play-resistance\"><img data-attachment-id=\"41\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/saturday-status\/pp1_600x900_0\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PP1_600x900_0.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PP1_600x900_0\" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PP1_600x900_0.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PP1_600x900_0.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-41\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PP1_600x900_0.jpg\" alt width=\"140\" height=\"210\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>What I\u2019m read\u00ading ~<\/strong><\/span> I&nbsp;fol\u00adlow Cat Grant and Rachel Haimowitz on Twit\u00adter. I&nbsp;heard a&nbsp;dis\u00adcus\u00adsion about their joint\u00adly authored book. Pow\u00ader Play: Resis\u00adtance. I&nbsp;went to the pub\u00adlish\u00ader\u2019s site and read the excerpt, and I&nbsp;was hooked. It\u2019s book one in a&nbsp;series, and I&nbsp;already checked for book two (June, 2012) so at least they aren\u2019t mak\u00ading me wait! I&nbsp;fell for Bran, espe\u00adcial\u00adly his inter\u00adnal dia\u00adlogue. This book is not for the faint of&nbsp;heart.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Hero Quote ~<\/strong><\/span> from Treat, the free read pre\u00adquel to Retreat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>City folk have a&nbsp;strange sense of civilization.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s all for me. Don\u2019t expect an update next week, unless I&nbsp;find some time in between the <span class=\"caps\">RT<\/span> work\u00adshops. I\u2019ll be tweet\u00ading pic\u00adtures as I&nbsp;go, so <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alannacoca\" target=\"_blank\">fol\u00adlow me<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Wel\u00adcome! Hap\u00adpy East\u00ader Week\u00adend! I&nbsp;hope you\u2019re hav\u00ading a&nbsp;great time gorg\u00ading on jel\u00adly beans and cr\u00e8me eggs. I&nbsp;don\u2019t know about you, but I&nbsp;think East\u00ader has the best can\u00addy of all&nbsp;the&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-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}