{"id":5372,"date":"2012-08-11T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:19","slug":"saturday-status-81112-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/saturday-status-81112-2","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 8\/11\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hap\u00adpy Sat\u00adur\u00adday! Like many through\u00adout the nation and world, I spent Sun\u00adday night glued to my com\u00adput\u00ader watch\u00ading NASA<\/span>\u2019s Rover Curiosity\u2019s suc\u00adcess\u00adful land\u00ading on Mars. I got goose\u00adbumps. I hope my British read\u00aders aren\u2019t offend\u00aded by this pic\u00adture. I just had to. I mean, look at the Eagle\u2019s expression!<\/p>\n

Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/strong><\/span> Bad Lip Read\u00ading just gets bet\u00adter and bet\u00adter. They cov\u00adered Coldplay\u2019s \u00c2 In My Place<\/a>. Renamed it Yeti. I\u2019d love to see a behind-the-scenes video for BLR<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Work in Progress News ~<\/span> <\/strong>Wrote a few K into Dean\u2019s sto\u00adry, the sec\u00adond in the Earth Scents series. I\u2019m a lit\u00adtle wor\u00adried about fol\u00adlow\u00ading a m\/f book with an m\/m book. If I have any read\u00ader opin\u00adions, I\u2019d love to hear them. Oth\u00ader\u00adwise, I\u2019m just chug\u00adging away. Dean\u2019s sto\u00adry will be writ\u00adten either way I guess.<\/p>\n

Search Term of the week aka How Peo\u00adple Found My Web\u00adsites ~<\/strong><\/span> This week, I found this par\u00adtial phrase: \u201cher hands moved low\u00ader\u201d. I always won\u00adder if these are things I typed in pre\u00advi\u00adous flash fic\u00adtion sto\u00adries? Those four words must have struck a chord some\u00adwhere somehow.<\/p>\n

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What I\u2019m read\u00ading ~<\/strong><\/span> I don\u2019t remem\u00adber why I picked this one up. Sure, Jen\u00adnifer Prob\u00adst is a best\u00adseller and all, but I\u2019m usu\u00adal\u00adly not swayed by that. The Mar\u00adriage Bar\u00adgain is a con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary novel\u00adla, with a whole lot of 80s Har\u00adle\u00adquin flare. We have a bil\u00adlion\u00adaire, a strug\u00adgling work\u00ading class girl, an arranged mar\u00adriage, and even a sneaky dead uncle\u2019s will. I admit, I loved it. Snap\u00adpy dia\u00adlogue, and excel\u00adlent writ\u00ading. Entan\u00adgled Pub\u00adlish\u00ading is on my short list of poten\u00adtial publishers.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Hero Quote ~<\/span> <\/strong>From Derek in Fine Print. This is where he changes the rules on poor Kara.<\/p>\n

\u00c2 \u201dIf you real\u00adly want\u00aded to have a ster\u00adile con\u00adcep\u00adtion, you would have gone to a ster\u00adile sperm bank, and picked one of the ster\u00adile vials of sperm, with no strings attached. This way, we\u2019re skip\u00adping the mid\u00addle man. We can bypass the lab and maybe even enjoy our\u00adselves a lit\u00adtle bit in the process.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kara han\u00addles it pret\u00adty well though. Okay folks. Time to get back to it. Have a great week!<\/p>\n\n

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