{"id":1640,"date":"2017-12-12T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2017-12-14T21:07:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T21:07:43","slug":"bits-and-pieces-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/12\/bits-and-pieces-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been an exceptionally busy time at work recently, so I haven’t had time to write much. But happily, lots of other things are happening, so here’s a compendium of them.<\/p>\n

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Kindle Cover – Half Sick of Shadows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, Half Sick of Shadows<\/em> was reviewed on Sruti’s Bookblog, with a follow-up interview. The links are: the review itself<\/a>, plus the first<\/a> and second half<\/a> of the interview. “She wishes for people to value her but they seem to be changing and missing…\u00a0She can see the world, but she always seemed curbed and away from everything.”<\/p>\n

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Secondly, right now there’s a whole lot of deals available on my novels, from oldest to newest. Half Sick of Shadows<\/em><\/strong> is on Goodreads giveaway<\/a>, with three copies to be won by the end of next weekend.<\/p>\n

All the other books are on Kindle countdown deal at \u00a30.99 or $0.99 if you are in the UK or US respectively. Links for these are:<\/p>\n

Science fiction series<\/strong><\/em>
\nFar from the Spaceports<\/strong> UK link<\/a> and US link<\/a>
\nTiming<\/strong> UK link<\/a> and US link<\/a><\/p>\n

Late Bronze Age historical fiction<\/em><\/strong>
\nIn a Milk and Honeyed Land<\/strong>\u00a0UK link<\/a> and US link<\/a>
\nScenes from a Life<\/strong>\u00a0UK link<\/a> and US link<\/a>
\nThe Flame Before Us<\/strong>\u00a0UK link<\/a> and US link<\/a><\/p>\n

Pretty soon there’ll be some more Alexa news, as I’ve been busily coding for the new Alexa Show (the one with the screen). But that’s for another day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been an exceptionally busy time at work recently, so I haven’t had time to write much. But happily, lots of other things are happening, so here’s a compendium of them. First, Half Sick of Shadows was reviewed on Sruti’s Bookblog, with a follow-up interview. The links are: the review itself, plus the first and … Continue reading Bits and pieces<\/span> →<\/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":[38,39,47,11,13,19,20,23,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-promotion","category-far-from-the-spaceports","category-half-sick-of-shadows","category-historical-fiction-2","category-in-a-milk-and-honeyed-land","category-scenes-from-a-life","category-science-fiction","category-the-flame-before-us","category-timing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}