{"id":35910,"date":"2020-02-14T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=35910"},"modified":"2022-01-09T03:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T08:19:14","slug":"in-which-valumtimes-day-brings-some-news-candy-for-your-heart-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2020\/02\/14\/in-which-valumtimes-day-brings-some-news-candy-for-your-heart-bucket\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which Valumtime’s Day Brings Some News Candy For Your Heart Bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Hey, so if you follow me on Twitter, you might know that sometimes I tweet inane, absurd, “motivational” (air-quotes probably necessary) tweets every morning. (Similar to Lin-Manuel’s, though obviously his are far less, um,\u00a0weird<\/em> than mine are.)<\/p>\n

Aaaaaanyway, long story short, there’s this:<\/p>\n

NYT bestseller\u00a0Chuck Wendig’s\u00a0YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, MAGIC SKELETON<\/strong>, an illustrated collection of Wendig’s motivational tweets that often go viral, illustrated by\u00a0Natalie Metzger, to\u00a0Jessica Fuller<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Rizzoli USA<\/a>, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2021, by\u00a0Stacia Decker<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Dunow, Carlson & Lerner<\/a>\u00a0(world).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Soooo, haha, yeah, that happened. It’s a joy to get to work with Natalie Metzger — check out her art here<\/a>. I think her art will totally suit the cuckoo bananapants vibe the book will give off — equal parts adorable and weirdable.<\/p>\n

Twitter has been bad for the world, but fairly good for me personally. I got the Star Wars job that way, there was Sam and my tweets leading to\u00a0You Might Be The Killer<\/strong>, and now this.<\/p>\n

It’s a strange ol’ world, innit?<\/p>\n

ANYWAY, let’s see, what else is going on.<\/p>\n

Wanderers\u00a0<\/strong>news? Sure!<\/p>\n

Let’s see. “A strong narrative drive, believable characters, and a solid underpinning in real science and current affairs make this one of the better near-future stories…”<\/p>\n

That, from an upcoming issue of Asimov’s.<\/p>\n

Aaaaand holy crap I was on NPR?! Talking to Neda Ulaby about Wanderers? Woo, it’s true, and you can find the article right here<\/a>, along with the 4-minute broadcast.<\/p>\n

So, that’s that.<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of a red-tailed hawk. BYE<\/p>\n

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Hey, so if you follow me on Twitter, you might know that sometimes I tweet inane, absurd, “motivational” (air-quotes probably necessary) tweets every morning. (Similar to Lin-Manuel’s, though obviously his are far less, um,\u00a0weird than mine are.) Aaaaaanyway, long story short, there’s this: NYT bestseller\u00a0Chuck Wendig’s\u00a0YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, MAGIC SKELETON, an illustrated collection of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32657,"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-35910","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\/08\/pencils.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-9lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910","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=35910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35915,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910\/revisions\/35915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}