{"id":5114,"date":"2011-05-30T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2011-05-30T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T04:10:03","slug":"ahhh-its-uploaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/ahhh-its-uploaded\/","title":{"rendered":"AHHH!  It&#8217;s uploaded!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cover-Genesis-Earth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5115\" title=\"cover (Genesis Earth)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cover-Genesis-Earth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cover-Genesis-Earth.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cover-Genesis-Earth-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s right; just a few minutes ago, I uploaded <em>Genesis Earth<\/em> to the Amazon Kindle store.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll take about 24 hours to show up on the site, at which point the entire universe will implode and we&#8217;ll all become robots fighting for survival in an artificial reality.\u00a0 So get ready!<\/p>\n<p>That beautiful image on the left is the cover, by the way.\u00a0 Pretty awesome, neh?\u00a0 It turned out even better than I was hoping it would.<\/p>\n<p><em>Genesis Earth<\/em> is my first epublished novel, and as such, I feel happy, nervous, excited, and ecstatic about it all at the same time.\u00a0 The short stories were one thing, but this&#8211;this is the real deal.\u00a0 This is me jumping in with both feet and not looking back.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long and arduous road to publication, and I want to thank all of you who have been a part of it.\u00a0 I plan on sending out a free copy to all of my first readers as a thank you gift; if for some reason I miss you, please let me know and I&#8217;ll get that sent out to you.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you still want to get in on the blog tour, let me know and I&#8217;ll sign you up.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to set up a strict schedule, but I&#8217;ll probably do three or four blogs a week, so either send me a topic to blog about or a set of interview questions, and I&#8217;ll get back to you as promptly as I can.<\/p>\n<p>Man, this is exciting!\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that the road ahead won&#8217;t be easy, but at least things are now in motion.\u00a0 This awesome novel has sat on my flash drive for far too long&#8211;time to put it out for people to discover.\u00a0 It might take months for it to find its natural readership, but I&#8217;m confident that it eventually will.<\/p>\n<p>Expect a post in the next 24 hours with more details.\u00a0 Until then, prepare yourselves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right; just a few minutes ago, I uploaded Genesis Earth to the Amazon Kindle store.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll take about 24 hours to show up on the site, at which point the entire universe will implode and we&#8217;ll all become robots fighting for survival in an artificial reality.\u00a0 So get ready! That beautiful image on the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/ahhh-its-uploaded\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AHHH!  It&#8217;s uploaded!<\/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":[559,89,515,158,529,63],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ge","tag-blog-tour","tag-career-decisions","tag-ebooks","tag-first-readers","tag-indie-publishing","tag-triumphs","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","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=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}