{"id":18477,"date":"2013-04-28T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=18477"},"modified":"2013-04-28T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T14:53:07","slug":"blackbirds-3-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/04\/28\/blackbirds-3-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbirds: $3.49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7280\/7090444205_259c1151a2_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7280\/7090444205_259c1151a2_z.jpg?resize=423%2C640\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cFast, ferocious, sharp as a switchblade and fucking fantastic.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212; Lauren Beukes, author of <strong>Zoo City<\/strong> and <strong>The Shining Girls<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Looking for an excuse to buy in and try out\u00a0<strong>Blackbirds<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>The first Miriam Black book is now just $3.49 for Kindle and Nook:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Blackbirds: KINDLE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blackbirds-ebook\/dp\/B007B2D4DU\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Amazon<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/blackbirds-chuck-wendig\/1107036474?ean=9780857662309\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/blackbirds-chuck-wendig\/1107036474?ean=9780857662309\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>B&amp;N<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(The paper books are on sale, too, at Amazon or B&amp;N.)<\/p>\n<p>(EDIT: B&amp;N has already bumped it back to $6.49?)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m poised to begin work on\u00a0<strong>The Cormorant\u00a0<\/strong>this week (playlist incoming over the next day or three), so now&#8217;s a good time to jump in and check out the first book in the series. Book #2,\u00a0<strong>Mockingbird<\/strong>, is already out, and\u00a0<strong>The Cormorant<\/strong> drops in December of this year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually been a year now that\u00a0<strong>Blackbirds\u00a0<\/strong>has been out, so thanks all for checking out the book and saying lots of nice things and leaving a wealth of spirited, positive reviews. For a book that took a long time to write and get out into people&#8217;s hands, it&#8217;s been very satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>You rock.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you dig the book.<\/p>\n<p>*disappears in a puff of black feathers*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFast, ferocious, sharp as a switchblade and fucking fantastic.\u201d &#8212; Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls * * * Looking for an excuse to buy in and try out\u00a0Blackbirds? The first Miriam Black book is now just $3.49 for Kindle and Nook: Amazon B&amp;N (The paper books are on sale, too, [&hellip;]<\/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-18477","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-4O1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18477","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=18477"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18481,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18477\/revisions\/18481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}