{"id":5345,"date":"2010-06-13T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T02:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:24","slug":"to-feast-or-not-to-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/to-feast-or-not-to-feast","title":{"rendered":"To Feast or Not to Feast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1028\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/feast-or-famine-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Woot! I&#8217;ve got some really great news to share! \u00c2\u00a0Tessa&#8217;s Pride has been accepted by Carina Press! I sent this manuscript out to all of my favorite publishers, and was overwhelmed with the response&#8230;I&#8217;ve received\u00c2\u00a0six contract offers, and\u00c2\u00a0although I never thought I&#8217;d have to turn a publishing offer down, I found myself having to turn down five.\u00c2\u00a0 Not much fun, I have a new respect for rejection letters. The really great thing about this is that I can find the best possible match for Tessa&#8217;s Pride, and I think I did!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this blog post to remind myself of the feasting when fasting rears its ugly head, because for every contract offer, there are probably two rejections.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-997\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pscopy.png?w=201\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My next book Position Secured, an interracial short story will be out on June 22nd! It&#8217;s already available for pre-order at amazon.com and Books on Board. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/books\/position-secured\">HERE<\/a> for more information about Marc and Marienna.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. This weekend I&#8217;ll be participating in a blog hop! The lovely ladies at Romance Writers Behaving Badly are putting together a guided tour of some wonderful authors and giving away a plethora of sexy romances, including my book Falling Star. Check <a href=\"http:\/\/romancewritersbehavingbadly.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> for more information. See you then!<\/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>Woot! I&#8217;ve got some really great news to share! \u00c2\u00a0Tessa&#8217;s Pride has been accepted by Carina Press! I sent this manuscript out to all of my favorite publishers, and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[3,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WdCY-1od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345"}],"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=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}