{"id":1481,"date":"2016-11-02T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2016-11-02T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:20:30","slug":"book-club-visit-harbingers-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/book-club-visit-harbingers-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club Visit + Harbingers Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1483\" src=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-002.jpg\" alt=\"BookClub1\" width=\"800\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-002.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-002-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-002-768x349.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><i><small>What a great group! I\u2019m second from the right, desperately skimming my manuscript for an answer to someone\u2019s question.<\/small><\/i><\/center><br \/>\nTaking a brief break from <i>Harbingers<\/i> edits (I\u2019m still working on it, promise!), I headed south to Washington, PA to meet up with a book club who chose to read <i>Blood\u2019s Force<\/i> for the month of October.<\/p>\n<p>My very first book-related event! How exciting\u2014but you bet I was nervous! Fortunately, this was a great group of ladies to cut my teeth on, so to speak. They were very sweet and asked wonderful questions, especially about science fiction and my research process (which I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/how-writers-do-research-right\/\">here<\/a>). I enjoyed sharing my rationale for different things, as well as hearing their feedback. (Like, \u201cI\u2019m glad you gave Ingvar to Jess! She deserved it.\u201d LOL)<\/p>\n<p>I also signed some books while I was at it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1484\" src=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-003.jpg\" alt=\"BookClub2\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-003.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Book-Club-Ellis-Morning-003-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now back to <i>Harbingers<\/i> editing and rewrites! :) I have all my notes back from my editor, and am 2\/3 done with my current pass. After this, I anticipate one more pass over everything to make sure it gels, which should go quick. I\u2019m not sure whether I&#8217;ll finish this year, or if it&#8217;ll\u00a0bleed into 2017. Rest assured, I&#8217;m doing my best to get it right <em>and<\/em> get it out the door in a timely manner! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great group! I\u2019m second from the right, desperately skimming my manuscript for an answer to someone\u2019s question. Taking a brief break from Harbingers edits (I\u2019m still working on it, promise!), I headed south to Washington, PA to meet up with a book club who chose to read Blood\u2019s Force for the month of October. My very first book-related event! How exciting\u2014but you bet I was nervous! Fortunately, this was a great group of ladies to cut my teeth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/book-club-visit-harbingers-update\/\"> 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":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","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=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}