{"id":5682,"date":"2013-01-19T09:07:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:18","slug":"saturday-status-11913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/saturday-status-11913","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 1\/19\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft shadow\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Samhain_Coming_Soon.jpg\" width=\"139\" height=\"216\" \/>Welcome! I&#8217;ve got great news to share. I&#8217;ve signed a contract with Samhain Publishing for <strong>Taking Her There<\/strong>! It&#8217;s tentatively scheduled for an August release, but I&#8217;ll be sure to keep you informed. I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/coming-soon\" target=\"_blank\">chapter one<\/a> posted for your reading pleasure. Let me know what you think!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Work in Progress News ~<\/strong> <\/span>Well this week&#8217;s work in progress really wasn&#8217;t writing. I did work a bit on <strong>Falling Star 1.5<\/strong>, but I spent a lot of time working on some promotional materials for this year&#8217;s Romance Times conference in early May. I&#8217;m letting my inner Martha Stewart come out, and like this\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2012\/12\/craft-fails\/#Kgr7ruESPxI7lVRf.01\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>, my ideas always look a whole lot better in my head.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Industry News ~ \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Now 54% of U.S. children aged 2-13 are reading ebooks, more than double the 23% of U.S. adults who are e-reading. Great news for the future of ebooks! I&#8217;d like to request some more middle school ebooks, from all of you children&#8217;s authors reading this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/span> <\/strong>YouTube really is a mecca of talent. This guy has it in spades:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TvJ0HzLke0Y?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Tweet of the Week ~<\/span><\/strong> Million dollar idea:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>I&#39;m opening up a restaurant called: I Don&#39;t Care, Where Do You Wanna Go?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ~Anna~ (@tayandmae) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tayandmae\/status\/289553695430045696\">January 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005Z1CGME\/?tag=alannacoca-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5685\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/saturday-status-11913\/attachment\/12961168\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/12961168.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"270,427\" 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=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/12961168-189x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/12961168.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5685 shadow\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/12961168.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/12961168.jpg 270w, https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/12961168-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">What I&#8217;m reading ~<\/span> The Christmas Proposition<\/strong> by K.A. Mitchell. Because I discovered a K.A. Mitchell book I hadn&#8217;t yet read. So I fixed that. &#8220;It&#8217;s Christmas in Epiphany, Pennsylvania\u2013the busiest time of year for Mel Halner. But running the family Christmas tree farm has worn down his love for the happiest season of all, and lately Mel&#8217;s been wondering what if he&#8217;d said yes to a ticket out of town with millionaire Bryce Campion three years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today&#8217;s Tearjerker ~<\/span> <\/strong>A new feature on my status posts. I was going to make these separate blog entries, but I think I&#8217;ll just put them here instead, since I already have your undivided attention:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/46300983?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/position-secured\"><img data-attachment-id=\"286\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/saturday-status-11913\/position-secured-cinemagraph-smaller\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/position-secured-cinemagraph-smaller.gif\" data-orig-size=\"195,300\" 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=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/position-secured-cinemagraph-smaller.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/position-secured-cinemagraph-smaller.gif\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-286 shadow\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/position-secured-cinemagraph-smaller.gif\" width=\"156\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Book Snippet ~<\/span><\/strong> from <strong>Position Secured<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI guess you had some cop fantasy, huh?\u201d He gave her another one of those slanted, naughty grins.<\/p>\n<p>Mari shook her head. \u201cI hate cops.\u201d His puppy dog frown was so cute, she couldn\u2019t resist laughing. \u201cI got a ticket on the way home tonight. You just have bad timing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, now there I disagree.\u201d He kissed her lightly. \u201cI don\u2019t think my timing could have been better.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have a great week, everyone!<\/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>Welcome! I&#8217;ve got great news to share. I&#8217;ve signed a contract with Samhain Publishing for Taking Her There! 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