{"id":5701,"date":"2013-01-26T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:18","slug":"saturday-status-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/saturday-status-7","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"5703\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/saturday-status-7\/pen-and-ink-drops-isolated\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Fotolia_665358_XS.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"335,358\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Fotolia_665358_XS-281x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Fotolia_665358_XS.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5703 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Fotolia_665358_XS-280x300.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"180\" \/>Howdy! It was a good week here on top of the mountain. I got a lot done and we had some beautiful weather. Keep reminding me that global warming is a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/span> <\/strong>Ok it&#8217;s not so much the music as the dancer, but I think they both work well together. \u00c2\u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1140\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ueJ4-lTa1s?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>\u00c2\u00a0Tweet of the Week~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Have just written: &#8220;he got hold of the flappy thing that closes on a truck&#8221; because I don&#8217;t know the name of it. Shut up ok, writing&#8217;s hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Charlotte Stein (@Charlotte_Stein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Charlotte_Stein\/status\/294295968772415488\">January 24, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">W<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>o<\/strong>rk in Progress News ~<\/span> <\/strong>I&#8217;ve been working diligently on the sequel to Falling Star! I&#8217;m so proud of me. I had one really good day, but the next day I ended up cutting almost a thousand words. That&#8217;s how it goes, I guess. As soon as I come up with a title I&#8217;ll let my cover artist know so we can get the ball rolling! Also this week I filled out my cover art request for <a href=\"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/coming-soon\">Taking Her There<\/a>. That&#8217;s when I realized I never mentioned my heroine&#8217;s hair or eye color. I just left it up to Samhain&#8217;s cover artist. That should be fun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Industry News ~<\/strong> <\/span>What would you think about an ebookstore that only charges after you&#8217;ve finished the book? Or most of the book, or spent more than six seconds on a page? Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/01\/21\/total-boox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Total Boox<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shadows-Yesterday-Sandra-Brown\/dp\/0446360716\/?tag=alannacoca-20\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5705\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/saturday-status-7\/attachment\/30392\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/30392.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,475\" 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\/30392-187x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/30392.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5705\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/30392-187x300.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/30392-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/30392.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>What I&#8217;m reading ~<\/strong><\/span> I read a book I didn&#8217;t like. I even finished it. Not exactly sure why, though I did skim a good portion of it, the whole time I&#8217;m thinking &#8220;wow, I hope no one skims my books&#8221;. So then I \u00c2\u00a0re-read one of Sandra Brown&#8217;s genre romances that she wrote back in probably the early 1990s, not yet available in digital: &#8220;She was terrifyingly alone on a Texas highway about to deliver her first child when a rugged stranger in a pickup truck stopped to help her. Leigh Bransom had lost her husband eight months before when he was tragically killed on the job. This fateful meeting on a lonesome highway brought a handsome, new man into her life&#8230;yet he was a man with secrets and the power to break her heart again&#8230;&#8221; Just found all the old covers, had to post the one with the original title. Awesome!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Today\u2019s Tearjerker ~<\/strong><\/span> Okay, this story has been all over the internet this week, but in case you missed it, here&#8217;s the gist:\u00c2\u00a0A Houston waiter, Michael Garcia, is being celebrated for standing up for a little boy with Down syndrome. The story is heartwarming if you&#8217;d like to read and\/or watch the news clip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/moms\/waiter-hailed-hero-after-standing-boy-down-syndrome-1B8038223\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">Book Snippet ~<\/span> <\/strong>This one from my work in progress which is as yet nameless (HELP!) which features Jade and Adam from <a href=\"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/falling-star\" target=\"_blank\">Falling Star<\/a> as they drive down the highway in front of her parents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About thirty minutes into the ride, Jade leaned over the center console to lay her head on his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keep your head up where your mom can see.&#8221; Adam squeezed her leg. &#8220;I&#8217;m still trying to impress them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you impressed them any more, they&#8217;d adopt you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He laughed. &#8220;That would make our relationship a bit kinkier then, wouldn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well maybe,&#8221; she giggled. &#8220;But it would be good country music song fodder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re gonna pay for that one.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough out of me for the week. 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