{"id":1503,"date":"2012-02-20T20:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T02:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2012-02-20T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T02:24:27","slug":"back-from-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Back from the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got back from San Antonio in good shape&#8211;the weather going down qualified as Interesting, and the weather coming back easily made the category Delightful.\u00a0 The Toe is much better.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The FYE Conference was fascinating, and I met a lot of people from colleges and universities all over the country.\u00a0 Random House sends a big team promoting its &#8220;common read&#8221; and &#8220;FYE read&#8221; books.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A small group of writers are given exposure to the faculty and staff who choose the books for freshmen to read, or the whole college to read. \u00a0 Since <em>The Speed of Dark<\/em> has been used that way, I&#8217;m now on their radar.\u00a0 I was the only fiction writer (of five) and the only woman.\u00a0\u00a0 Felt kind of odd, and very unlike an SF convention (where were the Klingons??\u00a0\u00a0 Well&#8230;there were Romulans on Star Trek on TV last night) but I had fun.<\/p>\n<p>And tomorrow is the Big Day.\u00a0 My Silver Book Anniversary (so to speak.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among the other writers were National Book Award winners\u00a0 (wow!) but I had them outnumbered, if not surrounded.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tired now, and waiting to hear back from the hotel if they found what I left in the room (and I haven&#8217;t left anything in a hotel room in&#8230;um&#8230;I can&#8217;t think when was the last time.)\u00a0\u00a0 Worst is that it was my favorite writing-on-a-trip collection of music&#8211;all classical.\u00a0 Bach, Stanford, Mozart, Beethoven, Elgar, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got back from San Antonio in good shape&#8211;the weather going down qualified as Interesting, and the weather coming back easily made the category Delightful.\u00a0 The Toe is much better.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The FYE Conference was fascinating, and I met a lot of people from colleges and universities all over the country.\u00a0 Random House sends a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,38,5],"tags":[112,31,107],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-marketing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-book-business","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503"}],"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=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}