{"id":50,"date":"2009-01-14T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2009-01-14T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T22:20:10","slug":"book-sales-happy-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Book Sales Happy Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My agent has reported two &#8220;spikes&#8221; in sales of <em>The Speed of Dark<\/em> in the past month&#8211;so of course I&#8217;m happy about that.\u00a0\u00a0 The most recent was 92 copies in Portland, Maine.\u00a0 WOW!<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who&#8217;s contemplating using this book in a book club, class, or other reading group, please be aware that my publisher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/delrey\/\">Del Rey<\/a>, may\u00a0 have some special materials available, and I will be happy to do an email interview for your group.<\/p>\n<p>Travel time is limited, but technology&#8217;s getting better every day&#8211;now that I have broadband, I might even be able to manage an online chat session.<\/p>\n<p>(And now, back to the Happy Dance of\u00a0 &#8220;People are reading my book, my book!\u00a0 People are reading my book!!!&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My agent has reported two &#8220;spikes&#8221; in sales of The Speed of Dark in the past month&#8211;so of course I&#8217;m happy about that.\u00a0\u00a0 The most recent was 92 copies in Portland, Maine.\u00a0 WOW! For anyone who&#8217;s contemplating using this book in a book club, class, or other reading group, please be aware that my publisher, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}