{"id":1308,"date":"2011-08-20T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T12:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2011-08-20T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T12:04:47","slug":"future-contest-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Future Contest &#038; Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there will be a contest for an ARC of <em>Echoes of Betrayal<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t decided just what it will be, but it will be.\u00a0\u00a0 I enjoyed last year&#8217;s &#8220;invite a character to dinner&#8221; contest and hope you did, too.\u00a0\u00a0 I won&#8217;t have a contest topic until after the next trip, so this is just a heads-up.<\/p>\n<p>Husband is recovering well enough that I&#8217;m definitely heading for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/\">DragonCon<\/a> week after next&#8230;by train, which means leaving on Monday the 29th.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (This is because the Sunset Limited&#8211;the train I&#8217;ll take from San Antonio to New Orleans, runs each direction on alternate days.\u00a0 However, this gives me a chance to have a quiet morning in Atlanta before Registration opens Thursday afternoon.)<\/p>\n<p>I will be meeting Editor there for a working breakfast, and also Former Editors (both Baen and Del Rey)\u00a0 on a panel, so it should be productive.\u00a0 I hope to meet some of you there, though I know some of you were unable to come.\u00a0\u00a0 Next year I&#8217;ll miss\u00a0 DragonCon as I definitely plan to attend WorldCon in Chicago and it&#8217;s on the same weekend.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Well, yeah, I could charter a jet and take one day off Chicon to fly to Atlanta and back&#8230;if I won the lottery&#8230;but practically speaking&#8230;.no.)\u00a0 The advantage of Chicon 7 is that I don&#8217;t have to change trains (large smile here.)<\/p>\n<p>At any rate&#8230;suggestions for contests are welcome, though I won&#8217;t promise to use any.\u00a0\u00a0 (Isn&#8217;t that just like a writer!?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there will be a contest for an ARC of Echoes of Betrayal.\u00a0\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t decided just what it will be, but it will be.\u00a0\u00a0 I enjoyed last year&#8217;s &#8220;invite a character to dinner&#8221; contest and hope you did, too.\u00a0\u00a0 I won&#8217;t have a contest topic until after the next trip, so this is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,53],"tags":[116,82,112],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-contest","tag-dragoncon","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}