{"id":2102,"date":"2008-02-13T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:28","slug":"beware-hollywood-cheetah-ing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"Beware Hollywood Cheetah-ing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s L.A. times contains a sad story about one author who thought she saw a good thing, but it turned out to bite her in the bum. Deborah Gregory, author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-et-cheetah13feb13,0,2357952.story?page=1\" target= _blank>16 book <i>Cheetah Girls<\/i><\/a> series tells the story of why she&#8217;s still living in a cramped Manhattan apartment she calls a &#8220;dump.&#8221; The moral of the story seems to be, if you deal with the devil, have an entertainment lawyer on hand. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; dear. Via the ever-newhoundy <a href=\"http:\/\/ypulse.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/ypulse_books_es_2.php\" target= _blank>Ali @ Ypulse<\/a>, we find &#8230;Jesus. Coming soon as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/10\/asia\/manga.php\" target= _blank>a samurai<\/a> near&#8230; you. Y&#8217;know&#8230; I&#8217;m going to just reserve judgment on this, but&#8230; first instincts? Say, &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,  <a href=\"http:\/\/bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com\/bookshelves_of_doom\/2008\/02\/obsure-fairy-ta.html\" target= _blank>via Miss I-have-a-Snow-Day-tra-la-la,<\/a> I&#8217;ve enjoyed Sarah Beth Durst&#8217;s random collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahbethdurst.com\/fairytales.htm\" target= _blank>Obscure Fairy Tales<\/a> &#8212; way more fun of a I-should-be-working time-waster than they should be! <\/p>\n<p>If you hadn&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmoot.com\/2008\/02\/author-name-pronumciation.html\" target= _blank>Book Moot&#8217;s<\/a> Author&#8217;s Name Pronunciation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingbooks.net\/pronunciations.cgi\" target= _blank> link<\/a>, then go thou thither. Find out how to say GAIMAN&#8230; and it&#8217;s not GUY Man, note to self. (A. Fortis, who&#8217;s met him, already KNEW that.)<\/p>\n<p>And hey, speaking of the man himself, did you know he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2008\/02\/birthday-thing.html\" target= _blank>giving away a downloadable book<\/a>? Go, choose your favorite title and wish him Happy 7th Blogoversary!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to EVERYONE who participated in our chat with Sherri Smith! Comments will be closing on Friday, so if you&#8217;d like to be eligible to win a copy of her book, please drop by with your two cents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s L.A. times contains a sad story about one author who thought she saw a good thing, but it turned out to bite her&#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-2102","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\/2102","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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}