{"id":282,"date":"2018-11-09T14:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T20:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:53:18","slug":"you-may-have-noticed-no-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/09\/you-may-have-noticed-no-new-books\/","title":{"rendered":"You may have noticed no new books&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so here is what happened. <em>Star&#8217;s End<\/em> was getting close to being done (over 100,000 words) when I realized that while it was a good Tebrey story, it really wasn&#8217;t a part of the Awakening Series. It&#8217;s the story of a <em>long<\/em> mission to the Achenar home system. Good stuff. Not really a part of the main sequence. Didn&#8217;t have the right kind of title anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So, I set the manuscript aside and started over. Not an easy thing to do when you put your heart and soul into something, but <em>Star&#8217;s End<\/em> will see publication someday, just not until the main story is finished.<\/p>\n<p>The new book is titled\u00a0<em>The Sleeping and the Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently at 115,000 words, so I should finish in a month or so. It looks to be a monster, around the size of <em>The Remnant<\/em>. Once finished, the editor gets it. Then revisions. Then the beta readers. More revisions. Likely publication next April or May.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for hanging in there!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have a blurb for you guys soon, and hopefully a peek at the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there will be a couple of more short stories coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so here is what happened. Star&#8217;s End was getting close to being done (over 100,000 words) when I realized that while it was a good Tebrey story, it really wasn&#8217;t a part of the Awakening Series. It&#8217;s the story of a long mission to the Achenar home system. Good stuff. Not really a part &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/09\/you-may-have-noticed-no-new-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You may have noticed no new books&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8J0MD-4y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbspence.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}