{"id":494,"date":"2017-12-25T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=494"},"modified":"2017-12-25T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T15:29:33","slug":"all-i-want-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"All I want for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is a million books sold.<\/p>\n<p>Laugh with me. Go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>However, that isn&#8217;t really hard. All I need to do is&#8211;put my name out there, become a YouTube or podcast star, write tons of critically acclaimed books, and voila! A million books sold.<\/p>\n<p>Becoming famous is either a lightning strike or slogging through mud. The ones who slog through the mud aren&#8217;t heralded as loudly or as much as the lightning strikes. But while the lightning strikes last only a short time, the ones who slog last forever. I suppose I would rather be one who slogs. But most of my fame will be posthumous, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Next blog I will reflect on the year and give you an update of what&#8217;s coming up for next year. My Goodreads giveaway was a success&#8211;over 600 people entered the sweepstakes and about 10% of them put my book on their to-read list. I sent out the winner with Thursday&#8217;s mail. I think in February I&#8217;ll do another giveaway, with books 1 and 2 along with &#8220;Self-Defense&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Virgo&#8221; just had its big reveal&#8230;at 6K words. I&#8217;m at the point of &#8220;Now what?&#8221; I guess I&#8217;ll throw in an explosion, because I have about 25K words to go. I&#8217;ve been thinking about Capricorn and might sit down to write that one instead of Virgo, and let Virgo sit for a little while. Not sure. Taurus I need to do some research for. Queer Romance Ink, here I come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a million books sold. Laugh with me. Go ahead. However, that isn&#8217;t really hard. All I need to do is&#8211;put my name out there, become a YouTube or podcast star, write tons of critically acclaimed books, and voila! A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=494\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}