{"id":10404,"date":"2016-01-28T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2016-01-28T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:45:18","slug":"still-alive-though-it-may-not-seem-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/still-alive-though-it-may-not-seem-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Still alive (though it may not seem like it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for not posting to the blog in a while. I seem to be chronically disorganized, and updating the blog is unfortunately rather low on the priority list. But I&#8217;m still alive, and still writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gunslinger to the Stars<\/strong> is coming along well, though it&#8217;s not been without its hiccups. I&#8217;m about halfway through right now, and while I&#8217;m probably not going to hit the original deadline, I should have no problem finishing the rough draft by the end of February.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also happy to report that I&#8217;ve got the edits back for\u00a0<strong>Captives in Obscurity (Sons of the Starfarers: Book V)<\/strong> and am working with the cover designer to get that part squared away soon. Once I have the cover, it&#8217;s a simple matter of\u00a0writing up the metadata and formatting the ebook. So you can expect to see that go up for pre-order sometime in February.<\/p>\n<p>Also in February, it looks like I&#8217;ll have a short story come out, possibly two!\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Gettysburg Paradox&#8221;<\/strong> is coming off of submission soon, and I recently wrote a J.M. Wight short titled\u00a0<strong>&#8220;A Covenant of Hearts.&#8221;<\/strong> No idea where to submit that one, so I&#8217;ll probably just publish it myself. The J.M. Wight short needs a bit more work, but\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Gettysburg Paradox&#8221;<\/strong> is ready to go up almost right away. All I need to do is figure out a cover.<\/p>\n<p>So even though things have been quiet, there&#8217;s a lot going on behind the scenes over here. Expect to see some more\u00a0cool stuff really soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for not posting to the blog in a while. I seem to be chronically disorganized, and updating the blog is unfortunately rather low on the priority list. But I&#8217;m still alive, and still writing. Gunslinger to the Stars is coming along well, though it&#8217;s not been without its hiccups. I&#8217;m about halfway through right&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/still-alive-though-it-may-not-seem-like-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still alive (though it may not seem like it)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[964,1002,170,855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssf-v","category-gunslinger-to-the-stars","category-short-stories","category-ssf","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2HO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10405,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/10405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}