{"id":11541,"date":"2009-08-16T15:52:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2009-08-29T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T12:39:04","slug":"blurbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/16\/blurbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia defines <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blurbs\">blurbs<\/a> in part as &#8220;. . .\u00a0a short summary or some words of praise accompanying a creative work . . . &#8221; Blurbs are often found on the back of book or DVD covers.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m discovering, netting a blurb from an expert takes some wrangling, but the end result is worth it. A few nice words seldom hurt anyone. Some of these are still under construction, some are in hand. Below is a partial list of the blurb sources for The Last Track:<\/p>\n<p>1) An adviser to the US government who has been stationed in all over the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>2) An active firefighter with FDNY ( Fire Department of New York ).<\/p>\n<p>3) A writer of the best YA title in the last twenty-five years. &lt;&lt; Not JK Rowling or Stephanie Meyer. I&#8217;m not writing about wizards or vampires. Don&#8217;t get me wrong I love wizards and vampires, and JK Rowling and Stephanie Meyer, and their audiences. Nor am i in any way suggesting that they are not great writers of YA, only that the author in question wrote a story that really clicked with me. So I am writing to them.<\/p>\n<p>More on blurbs in the coming weeks. Till then, I have another novel to write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia defines blurbs in part as &#8220;. . .\u00a0a short summary or some words of praise accompanying a creative work . . . &#8221; Blurbs are often found on the back of book or DVD covers. As I&#8217;m discovering, netting a blurb from an expert takes some wrangling, but the end result is worth it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11546,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions\/11546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}