{"id":1431,"date":"2017-04-24T05:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2017-04-24T05:31:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:31:41","slug":"half-sick-of-shadows-final-manuscripts-submitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/24\/half-sick-of-shadows-final-manuscripts-submitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Sick of Shadows &#8211; &#8220;final&#8221; manuscripts submitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1365\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1365\" src=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kindle-Cover-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kindle Cover - Half Sick of Shadows\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kindle-Cover-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kindle-Cover-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kindle-Cover.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindle Cover &#8211; Half Sick of Shadows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the weekend I worked on both Kindle and paperback versions of <em>Half Sick of Shadows<\/em> and have queued up what I think are the final versions of both. Kindle release day is <strong>May 1st<\/strong>, and I have a window of only a couple more days to make changes before it is frozen ready for deployment. As for the paperback version, a proof copy should be on its way to me very shortly, and, all being well, that will go live not long after the ebook.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>preorder links<\/strong> are at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B06Y4LN6RP\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a>,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B06Y4LN6RP\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/dp\/B06Y4LN6RP\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.in<\/a><\/strong>, and other global Amazon stores<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also a couple of other ways you can get a <em>Half Sick of Shadows<\/em> fix:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/817T3HB9I7L._SL210_QL95_.png\" alt=\"Alexa Half Sick of Shadows logo\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexa Half Sick of Shadows logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Alexa: enable the Alexa skill for <em>Half Sick of Shadows<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B06XT7ZRP9\/\" target=\"_blank\">UK <\/a>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B06XT7ZRP9\/\" target=\"_blank\">US <\/a>Alexa stores &#8211; listen to extracts and hear about the book directly.<\/p>\n<p>Or on Issuu:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Half Sick of Shadows Sample\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?u=mattehpublications&#038;d=half_sick_of_shadows_sample\" style=\"border:none; width: 474px; height: 363px;\" allow=\"clipboard-write,allow-top-navigation,allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation,allow-downloads,allow-scripts,allow-same-origin,allow-popups,allow-modals,allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox,allow-forms\"  allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, here is the latest version of the blurb (which may change yet again over the next few days):<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Who is The Lady?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In ancient Britain, a Lady is living in a stone-walled house on an island in the middle of a river. So far as the people know, she<br \/>\nhas always been there. They sense her power, they hear her singing, but they never meet her.<\/p>\n<p>At first her life is idyllic. She wakes, she watches, she wanders in her garden, she weaves a complex web of what she sees, and she<br \/>\nsleeps again. But as she grows, this pattern becomes narrow and frustrating. She longs to meet those who cherish her, but she cannot.<br \/>\nThe scenes beyond the walls of her home are different every time she wakes, and everyone she encounters is lost,<br \/>\nswallowed up by the past.<\/p>\n<p>But when she finds the courage to break the cycle, there is no going back. Can she bear the cost of finding freedom? And what will<br \/>\nher people do, when they finally come face to face with a lady of legend who is not at all what they have imagined?<\/p>\n<p><em>A retelling \u2013 and metamorphosis \u2013 of Tennyson\u2019s Lady of Shalott.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I worked on both Kindle and paperback versions of Half Sick of Shadows and have queued up what I think are the final versions of both. Kindle release day is May 1st, and I have a window of only a couple more days to make changes before it is frozen ready for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/24\/half-sick-of-shadows-final-manuscripts-submitted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Half Sick of Shadows &#8211; &#8220;final&#8221; manuscripts submitted<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-release","category-fantasy","category-half-sick-of-shadows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}