{"id":9177,"date":"2014-04-01T01:07:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T07:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2014-04-01T01:08:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T07:08:25","slug":"odds-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/odds-and-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds and ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of quick things I neglected to mention in my last post:<\/p>\n<p>First, I ran a promo for <strong>Star Wanderers: Outworlder (Part I)<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefussylibrarian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fussy Librarian<\/a> over the weekend. If you&#8217;re looking for a daily newsletter with good book recommendations, you should definitely check them out. The team behind the site puts a lot of effort into making it a quality newsletter, and they tailor your recommendations not only by genre, but by the level of sex, profanity, and violence as well. I&#8217;ve subscribed to them for a couple of weeks now, and I&#8217;ve already seen some excellent books on their list, including Brandon Sanderson&#8217;s <em>The Way of Kings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Science-Fiction-Z-Joe-Vasicek-ebook\/dp\/B00JBV4492\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9149\" alt=\"SFA-Z (thumb)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SFA-Z-thumb.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Second, my latest book, <strong>Science Fiction from A to Z,<\/strong> is now up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Science-Fiction-Z-Joe-Vasicek-ebook\/dp\/B00JBV4492\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Science-Fiction-Z-Joe-Vasicek-ebook\/dp\/B00JBV4492\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon UK<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/science-fiction-from-a-to-z-joe-vasicek\/1119019358?ean=2940149368570\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/423757\" target=\"_blank\">Smashwords<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/science-fiction-from-a-to-z\" target=\"_blank\">Kobo<\/a>! Feel free to pick up a copy. It&#8217;s up just in time for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-to-zchallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blogging from A to Z Challenge<\/a>, which starts tomorrow! I&#8217;ve already got a couple of posts lined up, so it should be just as fun as last year.<\/p>\n<p>When I finished last year&#8217;s A to Z challenge, I realized that those blog posts would work well together as a book. You can still find the original posts on my blog, of course, but I&#8217;ve collected them here for your convenience. It was a fun side project, and at $2.99 you can consider it like buying me a drink or tossing a couple of bucks into the tip jar.<\/p>\n<p>That just about does it. See you tomorrow for this year&#8217;s A to Z challenge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of quick things I neglected to mention in my last post: First, I ran a promo for Star Wanderers: Outworlder (Part I) on The Fussy Librarian over the weekend. If you&#8217;re looking for a daily newsletter with good book recommendations, you should definitely check them out. The team behind the site puts a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/odds-and-ends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Odds and ends<\/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":"SCIENCE FICTION FROM A TO Z is now out, just in time for this year's #atozchallenge!","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":[1],"tags":[806,911,912],"class_list":["post-9177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging-a-to-z-challenge-2013","tag-newsletters","tag-the-fussy-librarian","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2o1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177","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=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9180,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions\/9180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}