{"id":244,"date":"2016-01-22T07:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=244"},"modified":"2016-01-22T07:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:07:28","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed I missed last week, so this week you&#8217;ll get two posts.<\/p>\n<p>Last week was hellacious. I had a cancer scare &#8211; yes, that&#8217;s a real possibility in my life, as you&#8217;ll find out when I write my memoir of the experience. I was on eggshells\u00a0all weekend, so could hardly concentrate on anything. But I&#8217;m free and clear now.<\/p>\n<p>Homecoming is coming along. I&#8217;m a little miffed that the cover I had paid for is not going to be used in its entirety. It initially had a house with a hook in the clouds. The hook was meant to be a meat hook but someone pointed out that it looked like a hay-hook. It wasn&#8217;t as important to the plot. But it is a symbol of what he&#8217;s carrying into the next book. However, it won&#8217;t work for <em>this<\/em> book. So they took the hook out entirely and now it&#8217;s a house. I&#8217;m a little bummed out, but they said they&#8217;ll use the hook for the banner ads. And when I make the poster of it, I&#8217;m going to use the hook, too. It&#8217;s supposed to make the reader wonder &#8220;What&#8217;s that there for?&#8221; so that way they read the book to find out.<\/p>\n<p>The book is short (184 pgs) enough to read in one sitting. I hope that people want more, which is the point of it. It&#8217;s a prequel to War Mage, where I&#8217;ve done the research and have set it in an exotic country. I&#8217;ll put the bibliography here sometime.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve still been writing scenes, a couple of Champions stories based on my muse from that game (Scott the Mage&#8217;s player). He threw me a curve ball after the &#8220;Marker&#8221; story and I&#8217;ve been trying to recover ever since. \u00a0Which is a good thing! I love when I get a challenge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Grimaulkin<\/em>, when I finish that book, is going to be dedicated to those muses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed I missed last week, so this week you&#8217;ll get two posts. Last week was hellacious. I had a cancer scare &#8211; yes, that&#8217;s a real possibility in my life, as you&#8217;ll find out when I write my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-life-sucks","category-war-mage","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}