{"id":6133,"date":"2009-05-16T15:54:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T20:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2009\/05\/16\/update_on_my_book_amdash_merlin_s_bladeo\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:48:55","slug":"update_on_my_book_amdash_merlin_s_bladeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2009\/05\/16\/update_on_my_book_amdash_merlin_s_bladeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Update On My Book &mdash; Merlin&#8217;s Blade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hooray!<\/strong> I just finished my 5th draft (barring a few minor changes from a list I&#8217;ve been keeping).  <\/p>\n<p><strong>This draft has been very important<\/strong>, because I&#8217;ve been working through the excellent suggestions of my wife. She took an entire month to do a detailed line edit, and I think it has added a polish that I didn&#8217;t know was possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s next?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sending out a few copies to friends and family to get their reaction.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>After making any suggested changes<\/strong>, I&#8217;m planning on blitzing some agents with queries and proposals.  The chances are slim to none for success in that area, but we&#8217;ll see what God does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also, I&#8217;ve made some exciting discoveries<\/strong> that may turn out to be the setting for books 4 and 5.  More on that later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/epictales.org\/HammerAndStone.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MerlynSpiral_Medium32.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"Merlin's Blade\" title=\"Merlin's Blade\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Views: 26<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nHooray! I just finished my 5th draft (barring a few minor changes from a list I&#8217;ve been keeping). This draft&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2009\/05\/16\/update_on_my_book_amdash_merlin_s_bladeo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Update On My Book &mdash; Merlin&#8217;s Blade&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6329,"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":[13,14,65,51,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-merlin-spiral","category-1-merlins-blade","category-activities","category-editing-fiction","category-progress-reports","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MerlynSpiral_Medium33.jpg?fit=320%2C160","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1AV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","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=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6807,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}