{"id":390,"date":"2009-09-05T16:41:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T22:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-09-05T16:41:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T22:41:17","slug":"bombs-away-or-alpha-reader-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Bombs Away (or, Alpha Reader Alert)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started sending the manuscript to the alpha readers who passed the test.\u00a0 If you heard from me that you did, and don&#8217;t get one by Sunday night (not Sunday morning&#8211;I have church), let me know.\u00a0 My email load is big enough that I can lose things in the inbox.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#8217;m gleeful at the thought that I&#8217;m getting the demographic spread back (you know, in 20+ years since the first books, the youngest readers have now gotten older.\u00a0 Fancy that!)\u00a0\u00a0 I look forward to everyone&#8217;s comments.\u00a0\u00a0 And do let me know when you&#8217;ve got the thing, even if there&#8217;s nothing to say yet.<\/p>\n<p>Do remember that the comments go to me in email, not here.\u00a0 And no taunting the non-alpha-readers.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m the only one authorized to taunt (taunt! taunt!)\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of those privileges we get when they stamp our passport.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started sending the manuscript to the alpha readers who passed the test.\u00a0 If you heard from me that you did, and don&#8217;t get one by Sunday night (not Sunday morning&#8211;I have church), let me know.\u00a0 My email load is big enough that I can lose things in the inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader-help","tag-progress-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}