{"id":73,"date":"2012-05-12T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T13:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:19","slug":"saturday-status-51212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/saturday-status-51212","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 5\/12\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"76\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/saturday-status-51212\/wpid-7099368697_b77d992f46_z\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wpid-7099368697_b77d992f46_z.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" 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=\"wpid-7099368697_b77d992f46_z\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wpid-7099368697_b77d992f46_z-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wpid-7099368697_b77d992f46_z.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-76\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wpid-7099368697_b77d992f46_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wpid-7099368697_b77d992f46_z.jpg 480w, https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wpid-7099368697_b77d992f46_z-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Howdy! A special happy Mother&#8217;s Day Weekend to all you mothers out there. And for all you Mutha&#8217;s too! You know who you are. Is this picture not the greatest? Can&#8217;t help smiling back.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/strong><\/span> You&#8217;ve never seen five superstar rock musicians look this uncomfortable in your whole entire life:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Y-0nWVdBH4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love this song, but have never laughed through a video that much. Thanks, Beach Boys!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Work in Progress News ~<\/span><\/strong> Well, I&#8217;ve tried a few different beginnings to the pilot story Olivia&#8217;s been working on. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m still not in love with it. I&#8217;m going to set it aside and work on something else. Instead I made a trailer for a friend of mine Gem Sivad (be watching for it!) and read a few books as a contest judge. And a few books that aren&#8217;t part of the judging, because I tried to make my WiP jealous. It didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Backlist News ~<\/span><\/strong> Speaking of awards, At Ease was nominated for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlaward.com\" target=\"_blank\">Swirl Award<\/a>! It&#8217;s the first annual award for interracial romances. At Ease is in the Novella category, and it&#8217;s up against some really great books by some really great authors. Just being nominated is an honor, and I&#8217;m not just saying that.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Industry News ~<\/span><\/strong> Not sure if this is news or just a rumor, but Amazon is rumored to launch a color e-book reader in the second half of this year. Just when you thought you had the latest and greatest, right? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20120509PD219.html\" target=\"_blank\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Search Term of the week aka How People Found My Websites ~<\/strong><\/span> Lots of terms made me giggle, but a good chunk weren&#8217;t repeatable! Whew, folks. This one found me, but I&#8217;m not exactly sure how: &#8220;harlequin romance nurse nolan no. 580&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brook-Street-Rogues-ebook\/dp\/B007BBV5T6\/alannacoca-20\"><img data-attachment-id=\"75\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/saturday-status-51212\/brookstreetrogues-200x300\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BrookStreetRogues-200x300.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"194,307\" 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=\"BrookStreetRogues-200&#215;300\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BrookStreetRogues-200x300-189x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BrookStreetRogues-200x300.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-75\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BrookStreetRogues-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BrookStreetRogues-200x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BrookStreetRogues-200x300-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>What I&#8217;m reading ~<\/strong><\/span> Ava March writes delicious historical m\/m. So when the buy link appeared on my laptop screen (I swear I don&#8217;t know how it happened) to the third in the Brook Street trilogy I just had to have it. I didn&#8217;t read books one and two yet, but they weren&#8217;t necessary for me to enjoy this one.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Hero Quote ~<\/strong><\/span> from Dean&#8217;s story, Earth Scents Book Two (untitled). This is actually a quote from Dean&#8217;s father, as he makes fun of Dean&#8217;s choices in men:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You say you like men, son, but you keep dating immature women.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, everyone. Get outside and enjoy spring while you can! And again, happy Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/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>Howdy! A special happy Mother&#8217;s Day Weekend to all you mothers out there. 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