{"id":476,"date":"2014-06-02T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2014-06-02T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:09:51","slug":"in-perpetuity-free-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/in-perpetuity-free-download\/","title":{"rendered":"In Perpetuity: Free Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ipcover_crop.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-477\" src=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ipcover_crop.png\" alt=\"ipcover_crop\" width=\"531\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ipcover_crop.png 531w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ipcover_crop-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><em><small>Astronaut drawing by <a href=\"mailto:mark.bowytz@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Bowytz<\/a> &#8211; Cover design by Ellis Morning<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My short story <em>In Perpetuity<\/em>&#8211; originally published in the May 2014 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/analogsf.com\">Analog Science Fiction and Fact<\/a>&#8211; is now available for free!\u00a0 Choose your format below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellismorning.com\/inperpetuity\/In%20Perpetuity - Ellis Morning.mobi\" target=\"_blank\">MOBI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellismorning.com\/inperpetuity\/In%20Perpetuity - Ellis Morning.epub\" target=\"_blank\">EPUB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellismorning.com\/inperpetuity\/In%20Perpetuity - Ellis Morning.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In Perpetuity<\/em> represents several thrilling firsts: my first attempt at hard science-fiction, my first published short story, and my first serious effort at compiling ebooks.\u00a0 (And I thought website\/browser compatibility was tricky!)<\/p>\n<p>The story began as one of many unfinished projects from my college days.\u00a0 In 7 years, its skeleton migrated across 2 state lines, 8 domiciles, and 3 PCs.\u00a0 One day, I rediscovered it and gave it a skim.\u00a0 <em>You know what?\u00a0 This one has promise.\u00a0 I should really complete it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I took the finished draft to the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/pittsburghwritersmeetupgroup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Writers&#8217; Group<\/a> for feedback.\u00a0 One of the comments: &#8220;Excellent. Get it published.&#8221;\u00a0 So I did.<\/p>\n<p>Shopping a short story to a publisher requires patience and professionalism, but the effort pays in more ways than one.\u00a0 I could actually walk into a bookstore and find my work &#8220;in the wild,&#8221; which for me was more exciting than the paycheck (but I&#8217;m totally not dissing the paycheck here).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/storyinthewild.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-480\" src=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/storyinthewild.jpg\" alt=\"storyinthewild\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/storyinthewild.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/storyinthewild-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope to do more short stories in the same universe as <em>In Perpetuity<\/em>, but at the moment, my work on <a href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/sword-and-starship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sword and Starship<\/a> takes precedence.\u00a0 I&#8217;m about 2\/3 of the way through my first editing pass with <em>Blood&#8217;s Force<\/em>, and I&#8217;m learning a lot about the reality of editing a large work as I go.\u00a0 Still on track for my targeted release date.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll probably have an even clearer idea by the end of September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope you enjoy the story!\u00a0 If you have any questions or feedback, please leave a comment or <a href=\"mailto:contact@ellismorning.com\">email<\/a> me.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to hear from you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag. --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- Place this tag where you want the widget to render. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106756336697302613382\/posts\/5YHBvWuh7h9\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut drawing by Mark Bowytz &#8211; Cover design by Ellis Morning My short story In Perpetuity&#8211; originally published in the May 2014 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact&#8211; is now available for free!\u00a0 Choose your format below: MOBI EPUB PDF In Perpetuity represents several thrilling firsts: my first attempt at hard science-fiction, my first published short story, and my first serious effort at compiling ebooks.\u00a0 (And I thought website\/browser compatibility was tricky!) The story began as one of many&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/in-perpetuity-free-download\/\"> 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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}