{"id":258,"date":"2014-04-07T03:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=258"},"modified":"2017-02-01T18:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:16:07","slug":"ishtas-companionrelics-of-war-progress-report-nineteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2014\/04\/07\/ishtas-companionrelics-of-war-progress-report-nineteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishta&#8217;s Companion\/Relics of War:  Progress Report Nineteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to one very large donation and a few smaller ones, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/ishtascompanion19.html\">Chapter Nineteen<\/a> is now posted for all to read, and Chapter Twenty is paid for but not posted yet.  (I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll probably post it Tuesday.)<\/p>\n<p>The serial might yet be finished.  We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Not much else to say; I haven&#8217;t started work on the second draft yet.  Wildside says I can have a contract whenever I&#8217;m ready, but they aren&#8217;t in a rush.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, they also mentioned that the sell-through for <i>The Sorcerer&#8217;s Widow<\/i> in bricks-&#038;-mortar Barnes &#038; Noble outlets has been disappointing; if you happen to see copies in your local B&#038;N, do whatever you can to help them find homes.  Returns won&#8217;t help Wildside&#8217;s bottom line or my prospects of getting future titles into real-world stores.<\/p>\n<p>(Online sales have done just fine; it&#8217;s only traditional bookstores where it hasn&#8217;t moved.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your support, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to one very large donation and a few smaller ones, Chapter Nineteen is now posted for all to read, and Chapter Twenty is paid for but not posted yet. (I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll probably post it Tuesday.) The serial might yet be finished. We&#8217;ll see. Not much else to say; I haven&#8217;t started work on&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2014\/04\/07\/ishtas-companionrelics-of-war-progress-report-nineteen\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ishta","category-progress-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}