{"id":12770,"date":"2013-02-14T20:58:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/?p=12770"},"modified":"2013-02-14T20:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T01:59:36","slug":"a-birthday-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/14\/a-birthday-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"A birthday treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Last Track<\/em> giveaway on Amazon this week went very well. With a little more than 24 hours left, the book is ranked #4 in action\/adventure and #2 in hard-boiled mysteries, down from a peak #1 position in both categories. For nearly four days, <em>The Last Track<\/em> remained in the top 100 of all free Kindle titles.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what a download count well in excess of 10,000 can do for rankings. Not too shabby. Was a nice treat on my birthday, especially after being so exhausted that I passed out on the couch at 6pm. Although there is one day left in the promotion, I&#8217;m OK with those numbers, so anything else that happens is gravy.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the above results, the publisher decided on a new pricing strategy for the e-book version. Also, the paperback release is getting reset in another trim size and perhaps a new cover, though that won&#8217;t happen until sometime in April.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re reading this before February 15, 2013 at 8pm EST, by all means, grab a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/fb.me\/YMWGjSZl\">The Last Track.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Track giveaway on Amazon this week went very well. With a little more than 24 hours left, the book is ranked #4 in action\/adventure and #2 in hard-boiled mysteries, down from a peak #1 position in both categories. For nearly four days, The Last Track remained in the top 100 of all free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770","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=12770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12772,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions\/12772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}