{"id":12141,"date":"2019-01-11T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=12141"},"modified":"2019-01-11T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:36:15","slug":"finishing-up-gunslinger-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/finishing-up-gunslinger-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing up Gunslinger to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTE-cover-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTE-cover-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTE-cover-450x675.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTE-cover-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTE-cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTE-cover.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m finishing up right now with the third and final book in the Gunslingers Trilogy, <strong>Gunslinger to Earth.<\/strong> Just one more chapter to wrap everything up, then all the final revisions for the last few chapters. So far, so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 40k words, this is turning out to be one of my shorter novels. I&#8217;m really happy with how it&#8217;s turned out so far, though. It wraps up a bunch of stuff from the previous books, with a surprisingly hopeful and optimistic look toward the future of the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the next couple of weeks, I&#8217;ll post a few excerpts, being careful to avoid any spoilers for the previous books. If all goes well, it should be up for preorder sometime in February, with an April release date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8rK7Qef0fCk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you&#8217;re curious, I wrote almost the whole thing while listening to the 2009 A State of Trance year mix. Such a great year for trance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up, <strong>Edenfall!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finishing up right now with the third and final book in the Gunslingers Trilogy, Gunslinger to Earth. Just one more chapter to wrap everything up, then all the final revisions for the last few chapters. So far, so good. At 40k words, this is turning out to be one of my shorter novels. I&#8217;m&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/finishing-up-gunslinger-to-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finishing up Gunslinger to Earth<\/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":[509,934,1135,1080],"tags":[610,913,925,566,985],"class_list":["post-12141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edenfall","category-genesis-earth-trilogy","category-gunslinger-to-earth","category-gunslinger-trilogy","tag-armin-van-buuren","tag-cover-art","tag-news-and-updates","tag-trance","tag-wips","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-39P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141","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=12141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12143,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}