{"id":75,"date":"2010-12-29T02:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T02:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geraldhornsby.wordpress.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2010-12-29T02:06:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T02:06:02","slug":"new-title-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/29\/new-title-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"New title on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pen-2-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pen-2-icon.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pen-2-icon\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-63\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m feeling fairly righteous this evening. I&#8217;m sitting on over 3,000 words of edited first draft. This was a novella I wrote a couple of years ago which has been sitting on my hard disk looking for a market.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the Kindle could open up as a market for novellas, where the traditional pricing constraints of tree books don&#8217;t apply.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s features my series character as police detective, investigating a murder on the British coast. As written, it came out at about 25,000 words. So far, I&#8217;ve stuck pretty much to the original pacing, but when it&#8217;s rewritten, I&#8217;ll look at how it reads to see if it needs more or less, or should stay the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling fairly righteous this evening. I&#8217;m sitting on over 3,000 words of edited first draft. This was a novella I wrote a couple of years ago which has been sitting on my hard disk looking for a market. It seems the Kindle could open up as a market for novellas, where the traditional pricing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5y3CH-1d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}