{"id":5956,"date":"2011-03-29T02:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T07:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2011\/03\/29\/merlin-s-blade-update-big-news\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T02:24:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T07:24:28","slug":"merlin-s-blade-update-big-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2011\/03\/29\/merlin-s-blade-update-big-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlin&#8217;s Blade Update &mdash; Big News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"goleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/images\/Robert\/Merlins_Blade_Cover_Front_Small.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"Merlin's Blade\" title=\"Merlin's Blade\" \/>No, I don&#8217;t have a publishing contract yet, but I do want to announce that <strong>I now have two, yes TWO, publishers looking at Merlin&#8217;s Blade<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>The first publisher<\/strong> (who has had my proposal for awhile) <strong>is taking it to committee<\/strong> to consider if they want to look at the whole manuscript. <\/p>\n<p>Probably one of the major things they&#8217;ll talk about is my proposal&#8217;s marketing plan, which I think is pretty comprehensive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The second publisher<\/strong> (Woo-Hoo!) had my proposal for ONLY ONE DAY and said <strong>they were delighted and wanted to see the whole manuscript.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Wow!<\/strong> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/smilies\/icon_eek.gif?w=1200\" alt=\"&#56;&#124;\" class=\"middle\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/smilies\/grayyes.gif?w=1200\" alt=\"&#58;&#121;&#101;&#115;&#58;\" class=\"middle\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/smilies\/icon_eek.gif?w=1200\" alt=\"&#56;&#124;\" class=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, Merlin Spiral fans, we have some highly exciting, and patience testing, months ahead!<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8230; <strong>I have received three new endorsements of Merlin&#8217;s Blade<\/strong> &#8230; more news on that coming up soon!<\/p>\n<p>Views: 30<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nNo, I don&#8217;t have a publishing contract yet, but I do want to announce that I now have two, yes&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2011\/03\/29\/merlin-s-blade-update-big-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Merlin&#8217;s Blade Update &mdash; Big News!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-merlin-spiral","category-1-merlins-blade","category-publishers","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Merlins_Blade_Cover_Front_Small8.jpg?fit=252%2C399","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1y4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}