{"id":2016,"date":"2008-04-19T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:52","slug":"waking-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Waking Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s early on a weekend morning, but I had to point out this little goodie. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/006556.html\" target= _blank>SF Signal<\/a>&#8216;s daily Tidbits, I discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnivoracious.com\/2008\/04\/checking-in-on.html\" target= _blank>Omnivoracious<\/a> has interviewed Gwenda Bond on the best recent and upcoming YA novels. She listed some really good ones, including an upcoming J. Larbalestier that I dearly want to read &#8212; and reminded me happily that Flora Segunda&#8217;s sequel is due sometime this Spring. Nicely done, Ms. Bond!<\/p>\n<p>Mitali <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitaliblog.com\/2008\/04\/mitali-on-view-from-bay.html\" target= _blank>survived her TV debut<\/a>. Mr. DeMille&#8230;? About that close-up&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/channel?section=view_from_the_bay&#038;id=5755208\" target= _blank>Spencer Christian, who was our local Bay Area weatherman<\/a> when I was a kid, does the interview. <\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Books broke the news &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080418\/ap_en_bu\/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AsGYNnUbuA.Z18dCFDRH3GRxFb8C\" target= _blank> the ferrets are safe<\/a> at last. Actually, it strikes me rather painfully that romance author Cassie Edwards has been dumped by her publisher. It was bound to happen &#8212; and <b>S<\/b>ecret <b>A<\/b>gent <b>M<\/b>an, in the wake of the original publicity, predicted that would happen, and warned all of his writers that it would happen to <i>anyone<\/i> who garnered a publishing house negative publicity &#8212; but still, it&#8217;s sad when an author shoots herself in the foot. Lesson learned for everyone, here&#8217;s hoping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s early on a weekend morning, but I had to point out this little goodie. Via SF Signal&#8216;s daily Tidbits, I discovered that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4862,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}