{"id":4684,"date":"2011-12-03T16:31:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T23:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:20","slug":"saturday-status-12311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/saturday-status-12311","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 12\/3\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4690 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Lonely-Christmas-Tree-800-508849-300x225.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\">Hap\u00adpy Sat\u00adur\u00adday! \u00c2&nbsp;Busy week\u00adend for me, along with work\u00ading extra hours at the Evil Empire, the grade-school\u00ader has some func\u00adtions that should keep me out of all kinds of trou\u00adble. Not that I\u2019m leav\u00ading my house to enter the deep freeze for any\u00adthing except the most impor\u00adtant things.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/span> I\u2019m mov\u00ading this fea\u00adture to the top, so you can lis\u00adten to the song as you con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading the post. I&nbsp;just heard this today, thanks to Rhap\u00adsody\u2019s Hol\u00adi\u00adday Playlist. The First No\u00ebl by Toby Mac fea\u00adtur\u00ading Owl City There isn\u2019t a&nbsp;video, so I&nbsp;did\u00adn\u2019t even both\u00ader post\u00ading the visu\u00adal. Have a&nbsp;lis\u00adten! What do you&nbsp;think?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6sV2qkofKIU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"25\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Work in Progress News ~<\/span> Cur\u00adrent\u00adly about <sup class=\"numerator\">2<\/sup>\u2044<sub class=\"denominator\">3<\/sub> through Wyoming Solace. \u00c2&nbsp;I\u2019m chang\u00ading a&nbsp;few things, but I&nbsp;doubt any\u00adone would notice except me. There\u2019s a&nbsp;plot thread I&nbsp;snipped, so now I\u2019m darn\u00ading the weave back togeth\u00ader. I\u2019m also adding dia\u00adlogue and some <span class=\"caps\">UST<\/span> in the first few chap\u00adters. Let\u2019s hope it all turns out. As an author it\u2019s very hard to open a&nbsp;three year old file and re-work it to incor\u00adpo\u00adrate every\u00adthing I&nbsp;learned since the book was first writ\u00adten. I\u2019m try\u00ading my best to keep the sto\u00adry the same, just cut\u00adting some of the extra cheese.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Back\u00adlist News ~<\/span> Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/darkmountainbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Moun\u00adtain Books<\/a>, I&nbsp;final\u00adly put my indie books up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookstrand.com\/dark-mountain-books\" target=\"_blank\">Book\u00adStrand<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/ebooks?as_brr=5&amp;q=Alanna+Coca&amp;as_sub=Fiction+%2F+Romance\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>. I\u2019m not sure how many read\u00aders I\u2019ll find there, but this also puts the books into the Google\u00adbooks data\u00adbase. Tri\u00adna and I&nbsp;are also mak\u00ading plans for Hol\u00adi\u00adday pro\u00admo\u00adtions, so stay tuned! \u00c2&nbsp;Also, Olivia received the final ver\u00adsions of Last Call in her inbox yes\u00adter\u00adday. They\u2019re all wrapped and ready for&nbsp;March!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Search Term of the week aka How Peo\u00adple Found My Web\u00adsites ~<\/span> This week some\u00adone found my site by search\u00ading for \u201ccoca liar\u201d. \u00c2&nbsp;Liar is such a&nbsp;hate\u00adful label. It\u2019s <em>fic\u00adtion<\/em>, boys and&nbsp;girls.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What I\u2019m read\u00ading ~<\/span> This week I\u2019ve been so busy work\u00ading on Wyoming Solace, I&nbsp;did\u00adn\u2019t get a&nbsp;chance to read any\u00adthing new. I&nbsp;hope I&nbsp;fin\u00adish this rewrite so I&nbsp;can reward myself with some of my Cyber Mon\u00adday purchases!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4694 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tessas-Pride-by-Olivia-Brynn.jpg\" alt width=\"131\" height=\"201\">Hero Quote ~\u00c2&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Direct from Josh the cow\u00adboy hero in Olivi\u00ada\u2019s con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary west\u00adern Tes\u00adsa\u2019s Pride\u00c2&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>I\u2019ve pulled the mem\u00ado\u00adry of that after\u00adnoon out more times than I&nbsp;can count. I\u2019ll nev\u00ader for\u00adget the way you looked with your Stet\u00adson tilt\u00aded over your brow. Your bare legs, so smooth\u2026and your mouth\u2026 God, your&nbsp;mouth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay folks, get back to your hol\u00adi\u00adday shop\u00adping! 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