{"id":99,"date":"2008-06-26T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-06-26T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T17:35:04","slug":"bit-of-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/bit-of-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bit of Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve received an offer from an epublisher to re-issue my romantic comedy short story, <strong>DECEIVING DEREK<\/strong>. I&#8217;m very happy about this, as the story was only with its former publisher for a few months before that pub closed. Kind of ironic, really. There aren&#8217;t too many short story markets for re-issues, and when I was looking the first time I could have submitted to either Pub A (the one I did submit to) or Pub B (the pub who just offered). I chose to submit to Pub A because Pub B was very, very new, and you all know (or you should) how leery I am about trying untested epub waters\u2014I&#8217;ve been burned (drowned?) too many times. So I submitted to Pub A and received a contract. I totally loved the cover art and had a good editing experience, so I was happy. Obviously, however, I made the wrong submission choice, because Pub A closed in November and Pub B is, by all accounts, going strong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, sometimes I am wise in the world of publishing, and sometimes I have really, really bad luck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I still need to go over the contract and make sure everything is\u00a0 in order, which is why\u00a0I haven&#8217;t\u00a0announced which epublisher has made the offer yet. You&#8217;ll earn two points if you guess correctly, though. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received an offer from an epublisher to re-issue my romantic comedy short story, DECEIVING DEREK. I&#8217;m very happy about this, as the story was only with its former publisher for a few months before that pub closed. Kind of ironic, really. There aren&#8217;t too many short story markets for re-issues, and when I was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/bit-of-good-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bit of Good News<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}