{"id":402,"date":"2008-12-05T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2008-12-04T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T23:43:11","slug":"the-funeral-is-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/the-funeral-is-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Funeral is Tomorrow…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, here’s an idea\u2014holding a funeral for a manuscript<\/a> you can’t place with a major publisher.<\/p>\n

Writer Mary Patrick Kavanaugh is laying her rejected manuscript, Family Plots: Love, Death and Tax Evasion<\/em>,\u00a0to rest tomorrow afternoon, Saturday, December 6th, 4 p.m. sharp at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n

From the press release:<\/p>\n

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The event will be open coffin. Many manuscript drafts, rejection notices, refinance papers, vision boards, an MFA in Creative Writing, and possibly even the authors much watched DVD copy of The Secret, <\/em>will be on view prior to the service for final farewell. Guests are invited to bring remants of their own dead dreams to bury with the author’s dashed hopes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, all is not lost. After rejections from sixteen New York publishers, Mary\u00a0decided to self-publish her book with iUniverse, and it’s currently for sale on Amazon.\u00a0This is her first novel. What say you? Is she giving up too soon? Or has she hit upon The Mother of All Book-Launching Publicity Stunts? Why not try a small press instead of going the self-publishing route?<\/p>\n

By the way,\u00a0I looked and looked, but I couldn’t find an excerpt of Mary’s novel on her website.<\/p>\n

You can attend the funeral in person or via podcast. Visit Mary’s website<\/a> for directions and more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, here’s an idea\u2014holding a funeral for a manuscript you can’t place with a major publisher. Writer Mary Patrick Kavanaugh is laying her rejected manuscript, Family Plots: Love, Death and Tax Evasion,\u00a0to rest tomorrow afternoon, Saturday, December 6th, 4 p.m. sharp at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California. From the press release: The… Continue reading The Funeral is Tomorrow…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-authors","category-publicity-promotions","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}