{"id":5054,"date":"2011-05-23T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2011-05-24T21:55:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T03:55:51","slug":"first-review-and-an-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/first-review-and-an-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"First review and an announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cover-From-the-Ice-Incarnate.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4766\" title=\"cover (From the Ice Incarnate)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cover-From-the-Ice-Incarnate-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cover-From-the-Ice-Incarnate-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cover-From-the-Ice-Incarnate.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>So shortly after I joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kindleboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle Boards<\/a>, Michelle from <a href=\"http:\/\/redadeptreviews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Red Adept Reviews<\/a> contacted me for a blog interview to go along with a review she was doing for &#8220;From the Ice Incarnate.&#8221; The review and interview were posted over the weekend; you can find them <a href=\"http:\/\/redadeptreviews.com\/?p=5348\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The review is generally positive, though I think the criticism is pretty fair; I&#8217;m much better at writing novels than writing short stories.\u00a0 It was a pleasant surprise, however, to have a reviewer come to me, and to come so quickly.\u00a0 I honestly wasn&#8217;t expecting that, so thanks!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the Ice Incarnate&#8221; is based on a scene from my novel <em>Genesis Earth,<\/em> which I will be epublishing very soon.\u00a0 I just got the initial sketches from the cover artist I selected, and they look really good!\u00a0 The only other holdup is my copy editor, and he should be finished by Wednesday, so hopefully the novel will be out in a week or so.<\/p>\n<p>In order to spread the word, I&#8217;d like to put together a blog tour.\u00a0 If you have a blog and would like me to write a guest post, that would be awesome!\u00a0 Just email me with a subject to discuss, or a list of interview questions, and I&#8217;ll let you know when I can fit you in.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll also post a link on this site, so my readers here can find your blog.<\/p>\n<p>So anyhow, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on here.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very excited to get <em>Genesis Earth<\/em> out, and also that my work is starting to get some attention.\u00a0 Hopefully, that will continue to build; in the meantime, I&#8217;ll keep on doing what I always do: write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So shortly after I joined the Kindle Boards, Michelle from Red Adept Reviews contacted me for a blog interview to go along with a review she was doing for &#8220;From the Ice Incarnate.&#8221; The review and interview were posted over the weekend; you can find them here. The review is generally positive, though I think&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/first-review-and-an-announcement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First review and an announcement<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,170],"tags":[515,555,554],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ge","category-short-stories","tag-ebooks","tag-promotion","tag-reviews","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1jw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","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=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}