{"id":30,"date":"2015-02-16T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/16\/the-modern-world-of-book-selling\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T07:48:00","slug":"the-modern-world-of-book-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/16\/the-modern-world-of-book-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modern World of Book Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s been eighteen months but I now get to say I have a new story coming out. Hurrah!<br \/>\nCalled &#8220;Agnes, A Fairy&#8221; it is a story of gods, management and dodgy art. On the Grim Whim scale this is firmly on the Whim end. It sprang from&#160;a conversation following a Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle meeting and is not the only story to come out of that night. You should check out Cameron Johnston (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/camjohnston\">@CamJohnston<\/a>) for his interpretation of the same seed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The new thing for me about this story is that it is part of an anthology available through a Kickstarter campaign. This means that I have no idea how much I might, or might not, get paid for my wee story until the bids are in and will lead to me obsessively&#160; refreshing the campaign page for the next month to see if anything is happening.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The campaign is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/809941908\/alternate-hilarities-hysterical-realms\">here<\/a> and runs until the 15th of March which, coincidentally, is my birthday. If you want to wish me a happy birthday, why not buy a book. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you do buy, hope you enjoy it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been eighteen months but I now get to say I have a new story coming out. Hurrah! Called &#8220;Agnes, A Fairy&#8221; it is a story of gods, management and dodgy art. On the Grim Whim scale this is firmly on the Whim end. It sprang from&#160;a conversation following a Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratuitous-appeal-for-cash","category-published","category-sillyness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}