{"id":10330,"date":"2011-08-15T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T04:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=10330"},"modified":"2011-08-14T18:21:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T22:21:06","slug":"penmonkeys-promos-and-updates-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/08\/15\/penmonkeys-promos-and-updates-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Penmonkeys, Promos, And Updates, Oh My"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/books-for-sale\/confessions-of-a-freelance-penmonkey\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"COAFPM, Bitches\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2009\/5762125641_13df67df73_b.jpg?resize=658%2C246\" alt=\"\" width=\"658\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*tap tap tap*<\/p>\n<p>Is this thing on?<\/p>\n<p>From today (Monday) to one week from today (next Monday, Aug 22nd), if you buy a copy of <strong>CONFESSIONS OF A FREELANCE PENMONKEY<\/strong>, I will comp you a PDF copy of <strong>250 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING<\/strong>. If you buy the PDF of <strong>COAFPM<\/strong>, I&#8217;ll just send you a copy of the other e-book automagically. If you buy <strong>COAFPM <\/strong>via Kindle or Nook, you will need to email me at terribleminds [at] gmail [dot] com with proof-of-purchase. Easy-peasy boop-und-squeezy.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock and avoiding my irritating broadcasts, <strong>COAFPM<\/strong> is a mega-ultra-head-crushing tome of writing advice. By yours truly. (But I assume you knew that much.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>CONFESSIONS OF A FREELANCE PENMONKEY<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>$4.99 at <a title=\"COAFPM -- Amazon US\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Confessions-Freelance-Penmonkey-ebook\/dp\/B0051JTOLQ\/ref=pd_sim_kinc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Amazon (US)<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <a title=\"COAFPM -- Amazon UK\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B0051JTOLQ\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Amazon (UK)<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <a title=\"COAFPM -- B&amp;N\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/confessions-of-a-freelance-penmonkey-chuck-wendig\/1031203705?ean=2940012417572&amp;itm=3&amp;usri=chuck%2bwendig\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>B&amp;N<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <a title=\"COAFPM -- PDF\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/books-for-sale\/confessions-of-a-freelance-penmonkey\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PDF<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, if you want updates as to what I&#8217;m working on? Or where you can find me?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let&#8217;s see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve got a new White Wolf project in the works that I&#8217;m developing &#8212; a little something-something called <strong>A House Divided<\/strong>. I&#8217;m also on as writer for another WW project down the road, as-yet-unmentioned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m hammering out <strong>MOCKINGBIRD<\/strong>, the sequel to <a title=\"http:\/\/angryrobotbooks.com\/2011\/06\/chuck-wendig-joins-our-quest-for-world-domination\/\" href=\"http:\/\/angryrobotbooks.com\/2011\/06\/chuck-wendig-joins-our-quest-for-world-domination\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BLACKBIRDS<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I just finished the second (and presumably final) edit on <a title=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Double-Dead-Tomes-Chuck-Wendig\/dp\/1907992413\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Double-Dead-Tomes-Chuck-Wendig\/dp\/1907992413\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>DOUBLE DEAD<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first Atlanta Burns novella &#8212; <strong>SHOTGUN GRAVY<\/strong> &#8212; is cooling its heels while I plan the second and third novellas. Then I intend to release them one after the other, a month or so apart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The film continues baking. Zeroing in on casting. Saw some cool new storyboards for the piece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Got a second film moving into treatment phase this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The TV show remains defunct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve got a short story &#8212; one of my favorites I&#8217;ve ever written, thanks to some direction from editor Robin Laws &#8212; in a collection called THE NEW HERO (vol 1). Just saw the cover from Gene Ha, and <em>wow<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have various other novels in various other stages of possibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Contemplating various things:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">a) Starting work on a comic project<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">b) A Kickstarter project for an anthology of really cool writers doing really cool things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">c) Seeing if I can scare up some video game work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">d) Seeing if I can&#8217;t scare up some new transmedia work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Which reminds me: as always, if you have work for me, I remain eager and available.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, your turn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Throw out some updates. How&#8217;re you doing? Whatchoo working on? Share with the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I wanna be excited about your stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today (Monday) to one week from today (next Monday, Aug 22nd), if you buy a copy of CONFESSIONS OF A FREELANCE PENMONKEY, I will comp you a PDF copy of 250 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING. Easy-peasy boop-und-squeezy. Also: click the post for an update as to what the hell I&#8217;m up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,16,3],"class_list":{"0":"post-10330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-chuckwendig","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-writing","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2GC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10330"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10363,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330\/revisions\/10363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}