{"id":27776,"date":"2015-09-18T07:25:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=27776"},"modified":"2015-09-18T07:25:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T11:25:14","slug":"aftermath-is-still-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/09\/18\/aftermath-is-still-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath Is Still Going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/COBjjaHWwAA7_P5.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/COBjjaHWwAA7_P5.jpg?resize=599%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"585\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aftermath is again on the NYT Bestseller list. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/best-sellers-books\/2015-09-27\/hardcover-fiction\/list.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Coming in at #5 amongst hardcovers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Second week is actually sweeter than the first. See, first week, you could argue that it&#8217;s there because a bunch of folks pre-ordered it and because it&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Star Wars<\/strong> and blah blah blah. And then, second week, you might think that the book would drop off the list like a stone. Mmmnope. Still there. Top five. Second week means people are reading it, liking it, and telling their friends. Second week means the book has a little word-of-mouth.<\/p>\n<p>So, thank you all for the SWEET N&#8217; MUSKY\u00a0EWOK\u00a0LOVE.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you have asked what&#8217;s going on with <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1JexgpW\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>those Amazon reviews<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and I&#8217;m not going to address\u00a0that right now &#8212; I&#8217;d rather just bask in the glow of the moment. (That said, anybody who takes a long look at the 350+ one-star reviews hovering around it\u00a0will discern a number of patterns and repeated words, phrases, and ideas. Maybe someone other than me cares to unpack that.)<\/p>\n<p>The book is in its fifth printing (in two weeks). It&#8217;s selling well. The publisher is happy. I&#8217;ve got two more books in the trilogy to write, so I&#8217;m happy, too.<\/p>\n<p>MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU WOOOOOOOOOO<\/p>\n<p>*ignites lightsaber and flails drunkenly around garage*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aftermath is again on the NYT Bestseller list. Coming in at #5 amongst hardcovers. Second week is actually sweeter than the first. See, first week, you could argue that it&#8217;s there because a bunch of folks pre-ordered it and because it&#8217;s\u00a0Star Wars and blah blah blah. And then, second week, you might think that the [&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-27776","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-7e0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27776","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=27776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27782,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27776\/revisions\/27782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}