{"id":35808,"date":"2020-01-21T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=35808"},"modified":"2022-01-12T02:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:27:47","slug":"macro-monday-brings-a-little-bit-of-wanderers-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2020\/01\/21\/macro-monday-brings-a-little-bit-of-wanderers-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Macro Monday Brings A Little Bit Of Wanderers News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEY GUESS WHAT? (This is where you say,\u00a0<em>oh my god are we getting a pony\u00a0<\/em>and I&#8217;m like, what, no, this is a blog, who said anything about a pony, and now I&#8217;m worried we&#8217;ve begun this exchange on not just the wrong foot, but a broken foot, because suddenly we&#8217;re collectively disappointed about the distinct lack of\u00a0<em>ponies\u00a0<\/em>all up in here.)<\/p>\n<p>AHEM<\/p>\n<p>So!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/2020\/01\/2019-stoker-awards-preliminary-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wanderers is on the preliminary ballot for the Stoker Awards<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary ballot is not the final ballot, of course, but honestly, it&#8217;s an honor anytime there is any signal at all that this book is connecting with readers. Thanks, readers!<\/p>\n<p>I also note here, rather selfishly, that I understand Hugo and Nebula nominations close soon, and so ahem ahem ahem,\u00a0<strong>Wanderers<\/strong> is a book, and maybe it&#8217;s a good book, and maybe you think it&#8217;s worthy of one of those? I dunno. I&#8217;m not you. But a bearded boy can hope.<\/p>\n<p>I have other news, quite a lot of it, but I am not at all free to share\u00a0<em>any<\/em> of it yet, which is I have come to believe\u00a0<em>the author&#8217;s curse<\/em>. We are receptacles fit to burst with news we cannot share.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I offer you photos. These three are test shots I took with a new lens &#8212; a 35mm macro lens with built-in ringlite. It&#8217;s a neat lens, though you basically gotta get\u00a0<em>right the hell up on\u00a0<\/em>your subject, so no bug shots with this one, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Please to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49419361492_18479dc31b_k.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49419361397_c2bb85b554_k.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49419361572_7baf48c103_k.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEY GUESS WHAT? (This is where you say,\u00a0oh my god are we getting a pony\u00a0and I&#8217;m like, what, no, this is a blog, who said anything about a pony, and now I&#8217;m worried we&#8217;ve begun this exchange on not just the wrong foot, but a broken foot, because suddenly we&#8217;re collectively disappointed about the distinct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33524,"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-35808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-theramble","9":"has-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Wanderers-revised-banner.jpg?fit=1877%2C626&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-9jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35808","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=35808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35812,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35808\/revisions\/35812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}