{"id":12030,"date":"2011-12-19T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T05:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=12030"},"modified":"2011-12-18T17:58:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:58:33","slug":"blackbirds-chapter-one-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/12\/19\/blackbirds-chapter-one-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbirds, Chapter One, Now Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BLACKBIRDS, Chapter One: The Death of Del Amico<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Free, online, at Angry Robot Books.<\/p>\n

That, my bubbly little word-heads, is my Christmas present to you. And by “my” Christmas present, I really mean Angry Robot’s present, but hey, whatever. It’s a present. You shut up.<\/p>\n

Due out in April, you can, of course, pre-order now<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Would love to hear your thoughts, if you care to share them.<\/p>\n

Other Stuff!<\/h3>\n

A reminder: the e-book promotion is still on where if you procure 500 WAYS TO BE A BETTER WRITER<\/strong>, you get 250 THINGS<\/strong> for free. Details here: “December Is The Month Of No Mercy<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Another thing: you’ll note that the Penmonkey Count is up to 627. Which means it’s time again to give away some stuff to folks — I will be giving away another postcard, another t-shirt, and another writing critique. All you need to do to be entered is have procured CONFESSIONS OF A FREELANCE PENMONKEY<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and shown me the proof of purchase (unnecessary if you bought the PDF version). I’ll pick tomorrow (Tues) at around 9AM — keep an eye on the comments here for the three picks. Details here: “The Penmonkey Incitement<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.” (Remember, once that count gets to 1000, it’s time to give away another Kindle.)<\/p>\n

Final note: the next couple weeks will be a little light here at terribleminds<\/strong> — you’ll still find content, but the posts will be a little smaller, a little more tidbitty<\/em>, at least until the end of the year.<\/p>\n

I know. Here’s a tissue. Cry it out. I won’t tell anyone what you and I shared here today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BLACKBIRDS, Chapter One: The Death of Del Amico. Free, online, at Angry Robot Books. That, my bubbly little word-heads, is my Christmas present to you. And by “my” Christmas present, I really mean Angry Robot’s present, but hey, whatever. It’s a present. You shut up.<\/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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-382","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","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=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12037,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions\/12037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}