{"id":3237,"date":"2005-04-12T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:24:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:24:57","slug":"i-could-really-learn-to-hate-jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"I could really learn to hate Jeff Stone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCBWI reports that he&#8217;s a first time writer. His degrees are in English and journalism. He has a movie deal and there was a five house auction on his first book. His <em>first book.<\/em> And Random House won<em>, <\/em>as in, <em>tried hard and beat out the competition by offering him a seven book serial deal.<\/em> With the money he sent his wife and kids to China for a month and a half. All this, because our man just <em>happened<\/em> to befriend someone who worked at Andrea Brown, someone who happened to be their second in command there. Where on EARTH is my writing muse\/fairy godmother at times like these?<br \/>Oh, and check out the pictures of this guy&#8217;s editors &#8212; both of whom donned monk&#8217;s robes and picked up ceremonial swords to pitch the series to their people. Can they BE any more enthused about him? Do you all want to slap him yet? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scbwi.org\/faces_interview.htm\">Jeff Stone<\/a> is probably a really nice guy. Let&#8217;s hope so. It seems he&#8217;s taking a page out of the book of so many writers and writing about&#8230; an ethnicity not his own. In the words of Leonard Chang, it&#8217;s not that you shouldn&#8217;t do it&#8230; it&#8217;s just that you&#8217;d better do it right&#8230; So, good luck to the very Caucasian Jeff Stone and his seven-book series called The Five Ancestors, a story combining the disparate elements of adoption, Shaolin kung fu, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCBWI reports that he&#8217;s a first time writer. His degrees are in English and journalism. He has a movie deal and there was 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-3237","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\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}