{"id":3013,"date":"2006-05-09T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:24","slug":"timing-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3013","title":{"rendered":"Timing, Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can I just whine to the universe at large that A.Fortis chose the most awful time EVER to go on vacation!? I&#8217;m in a final edit! I need someone to hold my hand and bring me adverbs! How could A.F. leave me for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendlyplanet.com\/images\/great-wall-china-detail.jpg\">some wall<\/a>!?<\/p>\n<p>Whinging aside, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/2006\/News\/05_NebulaWinners.html\">Locus has announced the winner<\/a> of the first year for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/News\/nortonaward.htm\">SFWA&#8217;s Andre Norton Award,<\/a> created to honor young adult SF\/F novels and named in honor of the late SFWA Grand Master. While not technically a Nebula Award, it is voted on by members in the same way the Nebula Awards are, and the winner this year was <a href=\"http:\/\/blackholly.livejournal.com\/\">Holly Black,<\/a> one of the coolest YA SF writers I know. I really enjoyed her previous book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackholly.com\/tithe.html\"><i>Tithe<\/i><\/a>, which I haven&#8217;t written up for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readersrants.blogspot.com\">sister site<\/a>, and look forward to reading her <a href=\"http\/\/www.blackholly.com\/valiant.html\">latest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cross fingers for me &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping to send a mss. back to the editor this week for a final run-through. I&#8217;ll let you know what happens next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I just whine to the universe at large that A.Fortis chose the most awful time EVER to go on vacation!? I&#8217;m in a&#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":[10],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","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=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}