{"id":1077,"date":"2015-10-14T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T01:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2015-10-14T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T01:25:14","slug":"now-in-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Now! in paper!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my besetting sins as an author&#8211;not as a writer, that&#8217;s different&#8211;is that I have a tendency to leave things too much in the rearview. It takes some effort not to regard something I wrote last week with a baffled air of, &#8220;That? But that was last week, let me tell you what I&#8217;m working on <em>now<\/em>.&#8221; Since what I&#8217;m working on now is, by definition, not something that is finished and visible, this is not a functional approach to sharing one&#8217;s work with the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>Short story collections are even less functional if you&#8217;re not able to talk about things you used to be doing. They have to pile up! And while they are piling you are doing something different.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, my ebook collection of children&#8217;s stories from Tired Tapir Press is now a shiny new <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1k3CccR\">paper edition.<\/a> It&#8217;s called <em>Dragon Brother<\/em>, and it&#8217;s got a shiny new cover by a local young artist with a comics specialty whose style is perfect for the youth content of the stories.\u00a0 So&#8230;yay new edition, yay new cover, yay book!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ecover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1078 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ecover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"ecover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ecover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ecover-416x623.jpg 416w, https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ecover-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ecover-scaled.jpg 1711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my besetting sins as an author&#8211;not as a writer, that&#8217;s different&#8211;is that I have a tendency to leave things too much in the rearview. It takes some effort not to regard something I wrote last week with a baffled air of, &#8220;That? But that was last week, let me tell you what I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}