{"id":2808,"date":"2006-10-16T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:47","slug":"good-tidings-from-land-of-aquafortis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"Good Tidings from the Land of Aquafortis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my jubilation ages ago at getting third place in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartwriters.com\/content\/blogcategory\/27\/20\/\">YA short story contest<\/a>? And then I never said anything about it again? That&#8217;s because I had heard second- or third-hand that one of the editors at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomingtreepress.com\/\">Blooming Tree Press<\/a>&#8211;the publisher who is putting together the anthology of contest winners&#8211;had left her job, and therefore the remaining editors were suddenly swamped. At that point I had been very discouraged because I&#8217;d received a phone message from Blooming Tree early in the year. When I finally touched base with them, they said the anthology would get going in June or July 2006, but I never heard anything more. When I got the information about them being short an editor, I tried to resign myself to the idea that maybe it just wasn&#8217;t going to pan out. Maybe my first real fiction publication was not ever going to make it into print.<\/p>\n<p>But yesterday I came home to a message on my answering machine&#8230;from Blooming Tree. They are proceeding with the anthology. I spoke to the editor today and she&#8217;ll be sending me an actual, physical contract. YAAAAY!!! And my story will be one of only 5 or 6 stories, she says. Perhaps now is the time to start planning my viral marketing campaign. (Those of you who&#8217;ve ever heard me ranting about my fabulous experiences in corporate marketing&#8211;for teen-oriented websites, no less&#8211;will have detected the towering level of sarcasm in that last statement.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my jubilation ages ago at getting third place in a YA short story contest? And then I never said anything about it again?&#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":[2,10],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","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=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}