{"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\" \/>Happy Saturday! \u00c2\u00a0Busy weekend for me, along with working extra hours at the Evil Empire, the grade-schooler has some functions that should keep me out of all kinds of trouble. Not that I&#8217;m leaving my house to enter the deep freeze for anything except the most important things.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/span> I&#8217;m moving this feature to the top, so you can listen to the song as you continue reading the post. I just heard this today, thanks to Rhapsody&#8217;s Holiday Playlist. The First Noel by Toby Mac featuring Owl City There isn&#8217;t a video, so I didn&#8217;t even bother posting the visual. Have a listen! What do you 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> Currently about 2\/3 through Wyoming Solace. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m changing a few things, but I doubt anyone would notice except me. There&#8217;s a plot thread I snipped, so now I&#8217;m darning the weave back together. I&#8217;m also adding dialogue and some UST in the first few chapters. Let&#8217;s hope it all turns out. As an author it&#8217;s very hard to open a three year old file and re-work it to incorporate everything I learned since the book was first written. I&#8217;m trying my best to keep the story the same, just cutting some of the extra cheese.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Backlist News ~<\/span> Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/darkmountainbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Mountain Books<\/a>, I finally put my indie books up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookstrand.com\/dark-mountain-books\" target=\"_blank\">BookStrand<\/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&#8217;m not sure how many readers I&#8217;ll find there, but this also puts the books into the Googlebooks database. Trina and I are also making plans for Holiday promotions, so stay tuned! \u00c2\u00a0Also, Olivia received the final versions of Last Call in her inbox yesterday. They&#8217;re all wrapped and ready for March!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Search Term of the week aka How People Found My Websites ~<\/span> This week someone found my site by searching for &#8220;coca liar&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0Liar is such a hateful label. It&#8217;s <em>fiction<\/em>, boys and girls.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What I&#8217;m reading ~<\/span> This week I&#8217;ve been so busy working on Wyoming Solace, I didn&#8217;t get a chance to read anything new. I hope I finish this rewrite so I can reward myself with some of my Cyber Monday 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\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Direct from Josh the cowboy hero in Olivia&#8217;s contemporary western Tessa&#8217;s Pride\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve pulled the memory of that afternoon out more times than I can count. I\u2019ll never forget the way you looked with your Stetson tilted over your brow. Your bare legs, so smooth\u2026and your mouth\u2026 God, your mouth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay folks, get back to your holiday shopping! 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