{"id":5232,"date":"2012-06-30T14:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T14:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:19","slug":"saturday-status-63012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/saturday-status-63012-2","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 6\/30\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachellegardner.com\/2012\/06\/fire\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Waldo Canyon Fire\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.rachellegardner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Waldo-Canyon-Fire-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>June is over! Folks, that&#8217;s not good news. The summer months need to last longer! II&#8217;m trying to enjoy every day of these few months. This picture tho, was taken in Colorado Springs, where it seems the entire state of Colorado has burst into flame. Please keep them in your thoughts. Photo via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachellegardner.com\/2012\/06\/fire\/\" >Rachelle Gardner.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/strong> <\/span>I love this song. Listened to it a lot this week, and only just now found out that Phillip Phillips is an American Idol guy. (I don&#8217;t watch.) Enjoy his Idol performance of Home:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bfRya-P4ffk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/WyomingSolace-cinecover.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"266\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">New Release News ~<\/span> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/wyoming-solace\/\" >Wyoming Solace<\/a> came out on June 26th! It&#8217;s now available at all your favorite retailers in ebook form, and in print next year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Backlist News ~<\/strong> <\/span>I heard a rumor last week that my book Tessa&#8217;s Pride is required reading at a Texas university&#8217;s Erotic Writing class. I&#8217;m not sure how to confirm this, but I did hear it mostly directly from a student! Pretty cool, huh?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Industry News ~<\/span> <\/strong>I&#8217;ve told you all about the sad state of Dorchester Publishing. It had filed for bankruptcy and I worried about the authors and agents who were waiting on months (years?) of royalties. News leaked this week that barring a huge twist, Amazon will purchase Dorchester Publishing, and it looks like the giant will even issue back payments! I admit I haven&#8217;t studied this deal, but from my pov, it looks like pretty good news. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookworld.com\/2012\/amazon-to-acquire-dorchester-unless-you-are-ready-to-outbid-them\/\" >source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Search Term of the week aka How People Found My Websites ~<\/strong><\/span> &#8220;bloody footprint&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0 believe it&#8217;s from my flash fiction blog hop post. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not mass murderers trying to Google clean-up options.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Power-Play-Awakening-ebook\/dp\/B008A9SACI\/?tag=alannacoca-20\"><img data-attachment-id=\"156\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/ppb2_10_frontcover\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/PPB2_10_frontcover.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,297\" 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=\"PPB2_10_frontcover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/PPB2_10_frontcover.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/PPB2_10_frontcover.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-156\" title=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/PPB2_10_frontcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>What I&#8217;m reading ~<\/strong><\/span> I read book two of Cat Grant and Rachel Haimowitz&#8217; Power Play series. Like book one, this isn&#8217;t for the light-hearted reader, but I squirmed a lot less reading this one than the first. Both mens&#8217; personalities really shone in this one.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Hero Quote ~<\/strong> <\/span>From Cody, my 19th century cowboy on naming a horse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a0\u201cI haven\u2019t named him. I like to see the temperament of an animal before I name one. The only names I came up with weren\u2019t polite enough to use in proper company.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for me. Have a great week, and make some time to do a rain dance or two for the western states. We need it badly!<\/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>June is over! Folks, that&#8217;s not good news. The summer months need to last longer! 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