{"id":417,"date":"2017-07-03T19:25:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=417"},"modified":"2017-07-03T19:25:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:25:44","slug":"self-defense-and-book-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Self Defense and book sales!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a successful book sale on July 1. Three sold books, mostly because people wanted card readings. Might have had more if I didn&#8217;t take so long reading cards. Had to buy a bigger table.<\/p>\n<p>My next appearance is going to be on July 29 in Richmond, RI (Exit 3A off I-95 in RI).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Self Defense&#8221; is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/instafreebie.com\/free\/DiqIl\">instafreebie<\/a> for the next 30 days. After that, it&#8217;ll be on Amazon and other places.<\/p>\n<p>I sent <em>Water<\/em> back to Zarra Knightly Publishing, so hopefully that should be out next month.<\/p>\n<p>I finally started writing <em>War Mage<\/em>. It&#8217;s like pulling teeth, though, even with the outline. Or maybe it&#8217;s <em>because<\/em> of the outline. I&#8217;m not an outliner. It did work for me once, but it&#8217;s not working for me right now. It&#8217;s still not the story I want to tell. The theme is something like, &#8220;Friends can be found in the most unlikely places&#8221; or &#8220;What might seem to be an enemy may be a friend&#8221;. Tyrath and Olron are keys to the theme. Makrah is like an aging hippie that loves democracy and the USA (I&#8217;ll have him come from the Rockies). The story is about control and freedom, how friendship and loyalty can overcome anything. Yes, I know that&#8217;s not my usual type of story, but I want to present something happy here.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s the other thing that is bothering me&#8211;a happy ending.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>War Mage<\/em> cover is going to be a lie&#8230;I got rid of the riders.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and episode 3 of <a href=\"http:\/\/darkmysticquill.com\/\">Dark Mystic Quill<\/a> is out. This is all about Grimaulkin and why he stayed in my head these last 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a successful book sale on July 1. Three sold books, mostly because people wanted card readings. Might have had more if I didn&#8217;t take so long reading cards. Had to buy a bigger table. My next appearance is going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=417\">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":[14,15,12,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brothers-of-the-zodiac-water","category-dark-mystic-quill","category-grimaulkin","category-promotion","category-war-mage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}