{"id":5083,"date":"2011-05-27T01:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T07:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2011-05-27T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T05:16:08","slug":"stoked-for-conduit-and-a-sneak-peek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/stoked-for-conduit-and-a-sneak-peek\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoked for CONduit and a sneak peek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conduit.sfcon.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">CONduit<\/a> starts tomorrow in Salt Lake City, and I am so stoked!<\/p>\n<p>This will be my third year in a row, and it looks like all the usuals are going to be there: Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, Dave Farland, L.E. Modesitt, Tracy and Laura Hickman&#8211;in other words, a whole bunch of awesome people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gonna be fun!<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I&#8217;ll be recording all the panels I attend.\u00a0 Shoot me an email if you want the mp3s.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll also try to give a report on this blog, though it might be a bit sparse.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I&#8217;m hoping mainly to get the ball rolling for the ebook release of my novel <em>Genesis Earth.<\/em> Local cons are great for networking with other writers, and hopefully I can get a few more people to sign up on the blog tour I&#8217;m trying to get started.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a blogger \/ blogging writer and you&#8217;d like to participate, here&#8217;s how it works: you give me either a topic for a blog post or a list of interview-type questions.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll write it up post and send it to you, along with the cover image for <em>Genesis Earth.<\/em> In the post, you include the image and a link to amazon where people can find the novel.\u00a0 When the post goes live, I&#8217;ll mention it here and put up a link so my readers can find it.<\/p>\n<p>You get a free guest post, I get publicity for my book, and we both cross pollinate readers and build our blog audience.\u00a0 Win-win-win all around.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, shoot me an email if you want to participate.\u00a0 Genre-wise, <em>Genesis Earth<\/em> is a YA science fiction romance; basically, it&#8217;s a coming-of-age love story with starships, wormholes, and first contact.\u00a0 If you think your blog readers would be into that kind of thing, I&#8217;d be more than happy to put you on the tour list!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I have some eye candy for you: my cover artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.net\/main.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hideyoshi<\/a>, just sent me the final proof and it looks pretty friggin sweet.\u00a0 Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Final_wip3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5088 align center\" title=\"Final_wip3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Final_wip3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Final_wip3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Final_wip3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aaahh!\u00a0 I&#8217;m so stoked to get this book out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONduit starts tomorrow in Salt Lake City, and I am so stoked! This will be my third year in a row, and it looks like all the usuals are going to be there: Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, Dave Farland, L.E. Modesitt, Tracy and Laura Hickman&#8211;in other words, a whole bunch of awesome people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gonna&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/stoked-for-conduit-and-a-sneak-peek\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stoked for CONduit and a sneak peek<\/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],"tags":[390,558,82,515,529,555],"class_list":["post-5083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ge","tag-blogging","tag-conduit-2011","tag-conventions","tag-ebooks","tag-indie-publishing","tag-promotion","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1jZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083","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=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5106,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}