{"id":7634,"date":"2012-08-06T21:03:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T02:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=7634"},"modified":"2012-08-07T00:14:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T05:14:33","slug":"alright-hit-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/alright-hit-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Alright, hit me up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just about ready to release <strong>Star Wanderers: Part II<\/strong>&#8211;the story&#8217;s been revised and proofread, the cover art is finished, the formatting is ready to go&#8211;all that&#8217;s left is figuring out the book blurb. \u00a0Which is where I could use your help!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got so far. \u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>IS FIDELITY WORTH THE PRICE OF FREEDOM? CAN LOVE TAKE ROOT BEYOND THE STARS?<\/p>\n<p>Oriana Station: a bustling frontier settlement between the Outworlds and the Coreward Stars. A popular port-of-call for free traders and independent starfarers alike\u2014and the latest target in the aggressively expansionist plans of the Gaian Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Life was simple for Jeremiah and Noemi before they arrived. Though neither of them speak the same language, they&#8217;ve reached an understanding of each other that goes beyond words. But when the colonial authorities make them into second-class citizens of a fractured empire, even that might not be enough.<\/p>\n<p>Their newfound friends in the immigrant community can only do so much. With Noemi and her people depending on him, Jeremiah must find a way back to the Outworlds\u2014before they lose everything that they came for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going with the family on vacation at the end of the week, but if all goes well, I should have it released before then. Newsletter subscribers will be able to download it for free on Smashwords for the first two weeks, and I&#8217;ll make Part I available for free while pricing Part II at $2.99. \u00a0When Part III comes out, I&#8217;ll drop the price to $.99.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I typeset and formatted\u00a0<strong>Bringing Stella Home<\/strong> for CreateSpace this morning, and ordered the proof just a few hours ago. \u00a0With luck, it should come in the mail by the end of the week. \u00a0This is the third book I&#8217;m releasing in print, and the last one for the rest of this year. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be sure to post pics and links for where to get it once it&#8217;s ready.<\/p>\n<p>In still other news, the Mars landing was <em>totally<\/em> worth staying up for last night. \u00a0A truly awesome moment for the whole human race. \u00a0And yes, I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1091\/\" target=\"_blank\">this excuse<\/a> all day.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least I got the blurb done! :p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just about ready to release Star Wanderers: Part II&#8211;the story&#8217;s been revised and proofread, the cover art is finished, the formatting is ready to go&#8211;all that&#8217;s left is figuring out the book blurb. \u00a0Which is where I could use your help! Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got so far. \u00a0What do you think? IS FIDELITY WORTH&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/alright-hit-me-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alright, hit me up&#8230;<\/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":[68,857],"tags":[724,729,199],"class_list":["post-7634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-sw","tag-blurbs","tag-print","tag-questions","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1Z8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634","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=7634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7637,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions\/7637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}