{"id":38972,"date":"2021-04-09T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=38972"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:08:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:08:49","slug":"wheres-wendig-april-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2021\/04\/09\/wheres-wendig-april-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Wendig? April Edition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DID YOU KNOW, ahem ahem, cough cough, that next week is the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6810\/9780789337023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, MAGIC SKELETON<\/a>, a very silly book of monstrous motivations by me and artist Natalie Metzger? Well,\u00a0<em>it&#8217;s true<\/em>. It comes out next Tuesday, and as a result, I&#8217;m gonna be bopping around this ol&#8217; Internet, polluting your brainwaves with whatever hot shit wants to come out of my fool&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go through it, shall we?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Already Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gabriela Pereira is one of my most favorite people, and I am never not happy to be on her podcast &#8212; the conversation always feels informal and fun and it&#8217;s one of those where I&#8217;m never looking at my watch except at the end, when I am forced to believe that our time is already up. In this one, we get into Magic Skeleton but a whole buncha other stuff too, should you care go give it a listen &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/diymfa.com\/podcast\/episode-352-chuck-wendig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 352 of DIYMFA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 13th:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quarantine Book Club, with Natalie Metzger, hosted by Mike Monteiro. I&#8217;ve been on QBC before, and it&#8217;s a blast &#8212; so this time being joined by Natalie Metzger is gonna be an absolute delight. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/quarantine-book-club-with-chuck-wendig-natalie-metzger-tickets-150115859577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grab a ticket now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 16th:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Valley Book Fest, in an event called &#8212; *checks notes* &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.letsplaybooks.com\/event\/lv-book-fest-chuck-wendig-after-dark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wendig After Dark.<\/a>&#8221; It sounds sexier than intended, but I do not plan to be doing this conversation in a sultry, seductive voice. Unless you want that, but it costs extra. Anyway! I&#8217;ll be in conversation with Rob Dougherty. It&#8217;s run by Let&#8217;s Play Books, and you can order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letsplaybooks.com\/book\/9780789337023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magic Skeleton directly from them<\/a>! They will ship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 24th:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Vandermeer, in conversation with, well, me. He&#8217;s got a book out, Hummingbird Salamander, which I found really brilliant &#8212; sharp, serious, David Fincherian stuff. A mystery, a puzzle, a warning. It&#8217;s really something else and it reads like a descent, like you&#8217;re falling into it. Anyway! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elliottbaybook.com\/event\/jeff-vandermeer-chuck-wendig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join us at the virtual Elliott Bay Book Company<\/a>, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Do I have any other news?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe? Probably? I&#8217;ll be back Tuesday to remind you about Magic Skeleton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.babelio.com\/livres\/Wendig-Les-Somnambules\/1244320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wanderers is out in France<\/a>, and is&#8230; maybe doing well?<\/p>\n<p>More as I know it!<\/p>\n<p>POOF.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38406\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2020\/12\/28\/eat-farts-2020-and-2021-you-are-on-notice\/81mdgjs5csl\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81mDGjs5csL.jpg?fit=1502%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1502,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"81mDGjs5csL\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81mDGjs5csL.jpg?fit=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81mDGjs5csL.jpg?fit=700%2C954&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38406\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81mDGjs5csL.jpg?resize=700%2C954\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81mDGjs5csL.jpg?w=1502&amp;ssl=1 1502w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81mDGjs5csL.jpg?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81mDGjs5csL.jpg?resize=768%2C1047&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81mDGjs5csL.jpg?resize=751%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DID YOU KNOW, ahem ahem, cough cough, that next week is the release of YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, MAGIC SKELETON, a very silly book of monstrous motivations by me and artist Natalie Metzger? Well,\u00a0it&#8217;s true. It comes out next Tuesday, and as a result, I&#8217;m gonna be bopping around this ol&#8217; Internet, polluting your brainwaves [&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-38972","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-a8A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972","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=38972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38974,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972\/revisions\/38974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}