{"id":1440,"date":"2017-04-30T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2017-04-30T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:47:09","slug":"half-sick-of-shadows-and-a-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/30\/half-sick-of-shadows-and-a-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Sick of Shadows and a giveaway&#8230;"},"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>Tomorrow (May 1st 2017) is the release date for the Kindle version of Half Sick of Shadows, to be followed by the paperback version in a couple of weeks once the final details are sorted out.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, here are the preorder links, which should still continue to redirect to the final purchase links as soon as the book goes live!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amazon.co.uk<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B06Y4LN6RP\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B06Y4LN6RP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Amazon.com<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B06Y4LN6RP\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B06Y4LN6RP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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<p>And to celebrate the release, I am running an Amazon reduced price offer on all my previous books, science fiction and historical fiction alike, timed to start on May 1st and run until May 8th. So you can stock up for the reduced cot of 99p \/ 99c for all of these. Links are:<\/p>\n<h4>Far from the Spaceports:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Far-Spaceports-Richard-Abbott-ebook\/dp\/B017WODIUU\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Far-Spaceports-Richard-Abbott-ebook\/dp\/B017WODIUU\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Timing (Far from the Spaceports 2)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Timing-Far-Spaceports-Book-2-ebook\/dp\/B01M0BQJAC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Timing-Far-Spaceports-Book-2-ebook\/dp\/B01M0BQJAC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>In a Milk and Honeyed Land<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Milk-Honeyed-Land-Richard-Abbott-ebook\/dp\/B01B4ONXUY\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Milk-Honeyed-Land-Richard-Abbott-ebook\/dp\/B01B4ONXUY\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Scenes from a Life<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Scenes-Life-Richard-Abbott-ebook\/dp\/B00H8Y0F7E\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scenes-Life-Richard-Abbott-ebook\/dp\/B00H8Y0F7E\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>The Flame Before Us<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Flame-Before-Us-Richard-Abbott-ebook\/dp\/B00V2JVRGO\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flame-Before-Us-Richard-Abbott-ebook\/dp\/B00V2JVRGO\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy the whole experience!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow (May 1st 2017) is the release date for the Kindle version of Half Sick of Shadows, to be followed by the paperback version in a couple of weeks once the final details are sorted out. For reference, here are the preorder links, which should still continue to redirect to the final purchase links as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/30\/half-sick-of-shadows-and-a-giveaway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Half Sick of Shadows and a giveaway&#8230;<\/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":[38,5,8,39,47,13,19,23,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-promotion","category-book-release","category-fantasy","category-far-from-the-spaceports","category-half-sick-of-shadows","category-in-a-milk-and-honeyed-land","category-scenes-from-a-life","category-the-flame-before-us","category-timing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","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=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}