{"id":78,"date":"2011-06-06T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2011-06-06T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T15:06:21","slug":"rhymer-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Rhymer is up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/amazon_cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-79\" title=\"amazon_cover\" src=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/amazon_cover-201x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/amazon_cover-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/amazon_cover-688x1024.png 688w, https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/amazon_cover.png 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Rhymer<\/em> (my book) is now available in Kindle format.\u00a0 (FYI &#8211; PC, iOS, Blackberry, and Android all have Kindle apps, so those work too.)<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rhymer-The-Cycle-Series-ebook\/dp\/B0054E7EYC\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">here <\/a>to check it out &#8212; you can download a sample, which is cool.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing one&#8217;s own name on Amazon for the first time&#8230; well, let&#8217;s just say it adds some gravity.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been plugging away at this project for months (and the world for years), and now it is let free to sail into the hands of The Reader. I&#8217;ve been swinging between excitement and terror since seeing the word &#8220;LIVE&#8221; last night, and I&#8217;m not sure exactly what it&#8217;s going to take to make the pendulum stop.\u00a0 A specific number of sales? The first review? The first BAD review?<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back to the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/user-contributed\/nightmare-maze\/\"><em>The Nightmare Maze<\/em><\/a> at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/\"> Choice of Games<\/a>, I seem to remember the jitters subsiding a bit when the iOS reviews started coming out. Some folks said it was 5-star awesome and others loathed it to no end, but all of them felt strongly enough about it to get online and say something. That was a good feeling.<\/p>\n<p>And now to start the next one&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhymer (my book) is now available in Kindle format.\u00a0 (FYI &#8211; PC, iOS, Blackberry, and Android all have Kindle apps, so those work too.) Go here to check it out &#8212; you can download a sample, which is cool. Seeing one&#8217;s own name on Amazon for the first time&#8230; well, let&#8217;s just say it adds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}