{"id":5762,"date":"2013-02-23T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/?p=5762"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:18","slug":"saturday-status-22313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/saturday-status-22313","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 2\/23\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5769 alignleft\" title=\"Couldn't help it.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Viagra.bmp\" width=\"189\" height=\"241\" \/>Welcome! Another snowy week here in the Rockies. \u00c2\u00a0Luckily I have remote start on my car, so I&#8217;m much more tolerant about how cold it gets \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Work in Progress News ~<\/span> <\/strong>Edits for Falling Star 1.5 are complete, and the cover artist is hard at work. The title I came up with is Starting Forever. I really want to finish Rising Heat, the next book in the Earth Scents series before I put it out there, but at the rate I&#8217;m writing, I&#8217;m not sure how long that will be. I am plugging away though, and my goal for RH is April 15th. Mostly so I can go to the RT Conference feeling like I did something to deserve it. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m only about 10K in, and I expect it to be about 50K, so I&#8217;ve got a long way to go. I think for Starting Forever I&#8217;ll put it up on my website as a free download while I continue writing #2, so as soon as I have a cover I&#8217;ll let you all know.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/span><\/strong> Sometimes a week calls for some old school Floyd. This guy did a good job with the video. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/xeqf6r\" height=\"276\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Backlist News ~<\/span> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/joyfullyjay.com\/2013\/02\/review-flipped-by-olivia-brynn.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joyfully Jay<\/a> gave Flipped four stars! &#8220;&#8230;nothing earth shattering in terms of conflict here, but the story is sweet and a little mushy with some nice heat.&#8221; Sweet, mushy, and hot. Sounds a little bit like oatmeal!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Tweet of the Week ~<\/span><\/strong> Very few tweets make me literally laugh out loud. This one got me.\u00c2\u00a0It still does.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>maybe if Jimmy crapped something other than corn someone would give a shit. I mean, c&#39;mon Jim, everyone craps corn!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; twoof (@mrtruthandsoul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrtruthandsoul\/status\/303650378837291008\">February 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Industry News ~<\/span><\/strong> According to <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/02\/20\/indie-booksellers-sue-amazon-a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a>: &#8220;Indie booksellers sue Amazon and big publishers over DRM (but have no idea what &#8220;DRM&#8221; and &#8220;open source&#8221; mean)\u00c2\u00a0A group of independent booksellers have filed a suit against Amazon and the major publishers for their use of DRM, which, the booksellers say, freezes them out of the ebook market&#8221;. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005639YOY\/?tag=alannacoca-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5767\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/saturday-status-22313\/attachment\/11867373\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/11867373.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"316,475\" 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\/02\/11867373-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/11867373.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5767 shadow\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/11867373-199x300.jpg\" width=\"139\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/11867373-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/11867373.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>What I&#8217;m reading ~<\/strong><\/span> I was looking for some baseball books because well&#8230;spring fever. Found this one for only a buck! \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;After years of hard work and keeping her nose firmly to the grindstone, Dr. Holly Bell has finally achieved her dream: a position as a pediatric surgeon at a prestigious teaching hospital. Children&#8217;s lives rest in her skilled hands. That means total dedication to her work and her patients without letting anything or anyone get in the way. And a hot affair with a superstar athlete is most definitely getting in Holly&#8217;s way&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Today&#8217;s Tearjerker~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" 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\/Nr54e0ebKis?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/tessas-pride\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5768\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/saturday-status-22313\/tessa-cinemagraph-smaller\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tessa-cinemagraph-smaller.gif\" data-orig-size=\"196,300\" 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\/2013\/02\/tessa-cinemagraph-smaller.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tessa-cinemagraph-smaller.gif\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5768 shadow\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tessa-cinemagraph-smaller.gif\" width=\"137\" height=\"210\" \/><\/span><\/a>Book Snippet ~<\/strong><\/span> a bit from Tessa&#8217;s Pride:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her habit of twirling one black curl in time with her mouse clicks made Josh\u2019s lips twitch with the need to smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuit staring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tessa didn\u2019t even look up, but she did stop chewing on that lip.<\/p>\n<p>Josh grinned. \u201cWhy should I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou make me nervous. I\u2019m not used to people staring at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t help it. You\u2019re beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She blushed. Damn, that was sexy. Even her eyelashes fluttered. He set his laptop aside and moved onto the couch beside her. \u201cIs this better?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you still staring?\u201d The last word raised in pitch when he nipped her shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll close my eyes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay folks, have a great week.<\/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! 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