{"id":159,"date":"2012-12-14T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2012-12-14T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T06:22:08","slug":"a-new-review-and-a-giveaway-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/14\/a-new-review-and-a-giveaway-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A new review &#8211; and a giveaway this weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I have set up a giveaway period for the short story <em>The Man in the Cistern<\/em> for this weekend &#8211; go to<\/p>\n<p>Amazon UK &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cistern-Short-Stories-Kephrath-ebook\/dp\/B009QM4GQM\/\" title=\"The Man in the Cistern on Amazon UK\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cistern-Short-Stories-Kephrath-ebook\/dp\/B009QM4GQM\/<\/a><br \/>\nor<br \/>\nAmazon.com &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cistern-Short-Stories-Kephrath-ebook\/dp\/B009QM4GQM\/\" title=\"The Man in the Cistern on Amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cistern-Short-Stories-Kephrath-ebook\/dp\/B009QM4GQM\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>for free Kindle copies downloaded December 14th-16th! Please check that the item is free in your specific time zone at the time of download.<\/p>\n<p>This gives you time to read it and then buy the full length novel <em>In a Milk and Honeyed Land<\/em> for Christmas in Kindle, Nook or physical formats &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kephrath.com\/WhereToBuy.aspx\" title=\"Where to buy 'In a Milk and Honeyed Land'\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kephrath.com\/WhereToBuy.aspx<\/a> for buying options.<\/p>\n<p>I had a new review uploaded to the Amazon UK Kindle site this week and I was thrilled by it. The reviewer had caught a great deal of what I have tried to do with the book, and has written an elegant and sensitive review. Some extracts are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is time travel at its best&#8230; The period is thoroughly researched and the voice authentic. stories are told in a different way &#8211; slowly, carefully, step by step rather like the long journeys of Damariel&#8230; We read about unfamilar religious customs and values but can detect traces, beginnings of the world we know. We see also the more recognisable human dilemmas and responses to those changes&#8230; There is space and time to reflect. The atmosphere of that is captured&#8230;.for those who can leave their twitters and instant lives to one side, and be patient..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full review is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/review\/R32WD3AKDB8KLW\/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B008T8HGRA&amp;linkCode=&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=\" title=\"Amazon.co.uk review\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/review\/R32WD3AKDB8KLW\/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B008T8HGRA&amp;linkCode=&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I have set up a giveaway period for the short story The Man in the Cistern for this weekend &#8211; go to Amazon UK &#8211; http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cistern-Short-Stories-Kephrath-ebook\/dp\/B009QM4GQM\/ or Amazon.com &#8211; http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cistern-Short-Stories-Kephrath-ebook\/dp\/B009QM4GQM\/ for free Kindle copies downloaded December 14th-16th! Please check that the item is free in your specific time zone at the time of download. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/14\/a-new-review-and-a-giveaway-this-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new review &#8211; and a giveaway this weekend!<\/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":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-copies","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}