{"id":1214,"date":"2016-06-06T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2016-06-06T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T18:23:03","slug":"stale-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Stale Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next month, my novel <em>Stale Reality<\/em> will be available for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing, sometimes, how quickly these things happens. It seems like only ten years ago I was writing the first draft. I&#8217;ll admit, I&#8217;d been holding onto the title for longer than that, waiting until I had a city strong enough for the story.<\/p>\n<p>During that ten years, the manuscript was looked at and reviewed by over two dozen people, and was workshopped during the Borderlands Bootcamp by some amazing friends, <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">colleagues, and mentors.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>I cannot possibly remember who looked at it and when. It was rejected by publishers that no longer exist. (Can I argue that this might have been the book that prevented their untimely demise?) It received some positive feedback. And every year, I dusted it off and went through it again, looking for the cracks, rooting out the failings, trying to add another layer of finesse and depth and purpose.<\/p>\n<p>In a very real way, this book is a collaboration between the me of 2016 and the me of 2006. And I cannot wait until everyone who has not yet seen it gets a chance to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Look for it in July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stale-Reality-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stale-Reality-cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stale Reality cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stale-Reality-cover-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stale-Reality-cover.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Next month, my novel Stale Reality will be available for everyone. It&#8217;s amazing, sometimes, how quickly these things happens. It seems like only ten years <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=1214\" title=\"Stale Reality\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}