{"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>Welcome! Happy Easter Weekend! I hope you&#8217;re having a great time gorging on jelly beans and creme eggs. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I think Easter has the best candy of all the holidays. Each year I stock up on these guys&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never tried them, you haven&#8217;t lived. Also, if you&#8217;ve never tried them, don&#8217;t start. I can&#8217;t take the competition in the stores anymore. Already they sell out within hours of being stocked onto the shelves. (Mouth is watering right now!) But enough of that. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done all week:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/span><\/strong> Okay, this is funny right 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&#8217;s not very Easterish, but it has a bunny!! Good luck getting rid of that earworm, by the way&#8230;<\/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 didn&#8217;t get many words in on Dean&#8217;s story, but I&#8217;ve been getting ready for the Romance Times Booklover&#8217;s Convention, which starts on Wednesday! I&#8217;ll be flying out of the windier city to the Windy City on Tuesday. I simply cannot wait. \u00c2\u00a0I made some nifty magnets with my logo on them. I&#8217;m pretty proud of me, and my crafty self! I can&#8217;t take credit for the idea tho, I got a magnet just like this from a Scentsy lady. \u00c2\u00a0<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 put my free reads on a CD (and added a bonus novel on random discs) and burned my logo on the front. Pretty cool looking, yeah? Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/booknibbles.com\" target=\"_blank\">booknibbles.com<\/a> for the way awesome and useful logo<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Industry News ~<\/strong><\/span> Back in 2010, Google put its feelers out into the indy book market, selling ebooks via a beta program. Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/google-to-end-ebook-reseller-program_b49672\" target=\"_blank\">Google is pulling the plug<\/a> on that program as it introduced the new Google Play format. I guess the revenue just wasn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Search Term of the week aka How People Found My Websites ~<\/strong><\/span> This one has popped up in various forms over the weeks, and I thought I should address it. &#8220;retreat by alanna coca detailed review&#8221; I&#8217;ve also seen &#8220;Alanna Coca Retreat detailed synopsis&#8221; and &#8220;Retreat spoilers&#8221;. It seems that the fact that the hero Jake is married in the book Retreat is giving some readers the willies. I won&#8217;t post a detailed review or spoilers anywhere online, lest I spoil it for others, but I am more than happy to answer your questions about Retreat via email. I can be reached at alanna@alannacoca.com. I 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&#8217;m reading ~<\/strong><\/span> I follow Cat Grant and Rachel Haimowitz on Twitter. I heard a discussion about their jointly authored book. Power Play: Resistance. I went to the publisher&#8217;s site and read the excerpt, and I was hooked. It&#8217;s book one in a series, and I already checked for book two (June, 2012) so at least they aren&#8217;t making me wait! I fell for Bran, especially his internal dialogue. This book is not for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Hero Quote ~<\/strong><\/span> from Treat, the free read prequel to Retreat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;City folk have a strange sense of civilization.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for me. Don&#8217;t expect an update next week, unless I find some time in between the RT workshops. I&#8217;ll be tweeting pictures as I go, so <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alannacoca\" target=\"_blank\">follow 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>Welcome! Happy Easter Weekend! I hope you&#8217;re having a great time gorging on jelly beans and creme eggs. 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