{"id":1621,"date":"2009-04-15T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:55","slug":"just-cruising-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"Just Cruising By&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always put links by to post at a later time, all at once, and what happens? I end up with this ridiculously long list and feel intimidated, so I tell myself I&#8217;ll do it later. But of course, later there will be even MORE links, right? Yup. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Links for you! First, a couple of tidbits for writers. Tanita mentioned a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/comeincharacter.blogspot.com\/\">Come in Character<\/a>&#8211;it&#8217;s a blog where you can comment AS the character in your fiction, and hopefully get to know him or her on more levels. Interesting idea&#8211;pretty intense, too. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m quite up to it, but it seems like a great practice space. Also of interest to writers is Nathan Bransford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanbransford.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/announcing-be-agent-for-day-contest.html\">Agent for a Day Challenge<\/a>, which happened over the past weekend. Check out the follow-up posts (as well as the sample queries) <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanbransford.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next, a plug for Tanita and her novel A La Carte&#8211;don&#8217;t miss the excellent review by <a href=\"http:\/\/interactivereader.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/la-carte-id-like-ice-cream-then-with.html\">Interactive Reader Jackie<\/a>, and then be sure to put her next book, Mare&#8217;s War, on your TBR pile, because it&#8217;s coming out in just a few months! W00t!!<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, a couple of random things for you&#8211;Don&#8217;t forget to check out Amanda&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/apatchworkofbooks.blogspot.com\/\">Patchwork of Books<\/a> on Thursday for the beginning of Winston Breen&#8217;s Puzzle Party&#8211;visit all the blogs on the tour to find different pieces of the puzzle, and if you solve all of them, you might win a signed copy of The Potato Chip Puzzles. I&#8217;m not familiar with the book, but it sure sounds like a fun promo, and you&#8217;ll find many of the usual suspects on the tour.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;what thinkest thou of e-ARCs? It&#8217;s a topical subject of sometimes-heated discussion in the kidlitosphere, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.shelf-awareness.com\/nview.jsp?appid=411&#038;j=661056#2781518\">a recent article<\/a> in the Shelf Awareness newsletter covers some of the concerns and upsides of the idea. Personally? Probably a good idea that would save a few trees. I&#8217;m just waiting for an e-reader that A) looks and feels good and B) is AFFORDABLE for, like, writers who might not make a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve still got a few links in my pile, but I&#8217;ll leave them for another day. My cat is meowing at me, and you&#8217;d be amazed at how distracting she can be&#8230;Happy Tuesday Night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always put links by to post at a later time, all at once, and what happens? I end up with this ridiculously long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,18,10,86,52],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-happenings","tag-views","tag-web-wanderings","tag-writing-daze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}