{"id":20509,"date":"2013-09-18T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=20509"},"modified":"2013-09-17T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T00:19:29","slug":"me-this-saturday-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/09\/18\/me-this-saturday-at-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Me! This Saturday! At The Library!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahem.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/libwww.freelibrary.org\/branches\/branch.cfm?loc=NWR\" href=\"http:\/\/libwww.freelibrary.org\/branches\/branch.cfm?loc=NWR\">I will be at the Free Library of Philadelphia (Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional) on Saturday!<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0You&#8217;ll be there. Don&#8217;t disappoint me. OR WE&#8217;LL DISCUSS YOU IN YOUR ABSENCE.<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<h3>Author Visit with Chuck Wendig &#8211; Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 3:00PM<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Wendig has been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of science fiction or fantasy for his first Miriam Black novel,\u00a0<em>Blackbirds,\u00a0<\/em>described in The Financial Times as \u201c\u2026 a splendidly profane slice of urban fantasy \u2013 hard, dark and fast\u2026 a black comedy that even the Grim Reaper could smile at.&#8221; \u00a0Other well-received recent books are\u00a0<em>Mockingbirds\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Blue Blazes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wendig will talk about his books, especially about the origins of his recently published young adult science fiction novel,\u00a0<em>Under the Empyrean Sky,\u00a0<\/em>the first book in the Heartland trilogy, which Kirkus Reviews called \u201cA chilling post-apocalyptic adventure set on an Earth devastated by poor agricultural practices\u2026A thoroughly imagined environmental nightmare with taut pacing and compelling characters that will leave readers eager for more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He will also talk about writing, as he is well-known for his witty, profane, and very practical advice to writers, which he dispenses at his blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/blog\/\">terribleminds.com<\/a>, and through several popular e-books. A collection of this advice will be published as a paperback in November 2013:\u00a0<em>The Kick-Ass Writer: 1001 Ways to Write Great Fiction, Get Published, and Earn Your Audience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bring\u00a0your copy of Chuck\u2019s books and he will sign it for you after his talk!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahem. I will be at the Free Library of Philadelphia (Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional) on Saturday!\u00a0You&#8217;ll be there. Don&#8217;t disappoint me. OR WE&#8217;LL DISCUSS YOU IN YOUR ABSENCE. Details: Author Visit with Chuck Wendig &#8211; Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 3:00PM Wendig has been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New [&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-20509","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-5kN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509","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=20509"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20515,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions\/20515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}