{"id":666,"date":"2010-03-14T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2010-03-14T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T15:42:49","slug":"its-coming-and-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Coming&#8230;.And A Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and I am Not Ready.\u00a0 Anxious, of course.\u00a0\u00a0 Eager, of course.\u00a0 But if &#8220;ready&#8221; is supposed to include organized, all supplies in place, wardrobe chosen and prepared, etc, etc, etc&#8230;.no.\u00a0 Not Ready.\u00a0\u00a0 And thanks to the misery that&#8217;s Daylight Savings Time (every year I scream silently at the heavens &#8220;It does not save any !**! daylight!!!&#8221;\u00a0 And here in Texas we pray all summer for night to come and give us small relief from the day&#8217;s heat and glare)\u00a0 it is already 9:30 in the morning when it should be 8:30.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ritual annual complaint having been uttered, on to the next item:\u00a0 I have a new post up at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/2010\/03\/12\/two-trick-pony\/\"> Orbit blogsite<\/a> about writing in two genres, titled &#8220;Two-Trick Pony.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s not the surprise, though there&#8217;s some interesting personal history and writing stuff involved.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise?\u00a0\u00a0 A brand new Paksworld story, a side-story to the new books, available for free download from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suvudu.com\/freelibrary\/\">Suvudu Free Library<\/a>.\u00a0 You have to scroll down to the second book listed (my preciousss&#8230;.) and click the link there.\u00a0\u00a0 You don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to read it before the new book comes out, though before<em> Kings of the North<\/em> comes out would be&#8230;well&#8230;handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and I am Not Ready.\u00a0 Anxious, of course.\u00a0\u00a0 Eager, of course.\u00a0 But if &#8220;ready&#8221; is supposed to include organized, all supplies in place, wardrobe chosen and prepared, etc, etc, etc&#8230;.no.\u00a0 Not Ready.\u00a0\u00a0 And thanks to the misery that&#8217;s Daylight Savings Time (every year I scream silently at the heavens &#8220;It does not save any !**! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,61,53,5],"tags":[106,62,74,112,31,107],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","category-craft","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-contents","tag-craft-of-writing","tag-freebies","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\/666"}],"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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}