{"id":1474,"date":"2016-08-18T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:50:40","slug":"sword-and-starships-having-a-good-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/sword-and-starships-having-a-good-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Sword and Starship\u2019s Having A Good Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EllisMorning_Harbingers_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1463\" src=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EllisMorning_Harbingers_cover.jpg\" alt=\"EllisMorning_Harbingers_cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EllisMorning_Harbingers_cover.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EllisMorning_Harbingers_cover-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EllisMorning_Harbingers_cover-768x1200.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EllisMorning_Harbingers_cover-655x1024.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small update on <em>Harbingers:<\/em> I have the first 1\/3 of feedback notes from my editor, so my last editing pass has begun in earnest! There are 30-ish chapters to review, some of which need more work than others. Sometimes it\u2019s just a matter of fixing a comma or plugging in a better word. Other times, I gotta tear down what\u2019s there and\u00a0start over from scratch. If you\u2019re curious about the details of my last-pass editing process, I\u2019ve written more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/finding-my-editing-and-revising-groove\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/polish-your-manuscript-with-one-final-sanity-read\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I still hope\u00a0to publish <em>Harbingers<\/em> by the end of 2016, but if the book needs more time to be amazing, then so be it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/EllisMorningSwordAndStarshipBloodsForce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1309\" src=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/EllisMorningSwordAndStarshipBloodsForce.jpg\" alt=\"EllisMorningSwordAndStarshipBloodsForce\" width=\"522\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/EllisMorningSwordAndStarshipBloodsForce.jpg 522w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/EllisMorningSwordAndStarshipBloodsForce-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other news, <em>Blood\u2019s Force<\/em> was selected as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herstoryarc.com\" target=\"_blank\">Her Story Arc<\/a>\u2019s Book of the Month this August! How cool is that? :D Here\u2019s a quote from the review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys sci-fi\/fantasy genre blending. I absolutely loved the interplay between \u2018magic\u2019 and misunderstood science. The way Jess manipulates ignorance in others to accomplish logical goals was engaging to read. I am definitely reading book two when it is finished!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full review <a href=\"https:\/\/herstoryarc.com\/2016\/08\/09\/surrender-to-bloods-force\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small update on Harbingers: I have the first 1\/3 of feedback notes from my editor, so my last editing pass has begun in earnest! There are 30-ish chapters to review, some of which need more work than others. Sometimes it\u2019s just a matter of fixing a comma or plugging in a better word. Other times, I gotta tear down what\u2019s there and\u00a0start over from scratch. If you\u2019re curious about the details of my last-pass editing process, I\u2019ve written more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/sword-and-starships-having-a-good-month\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sword-and-starship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}