{"id":1651,"date":"2017-12-23T09:56:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T09:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2017-12-23T09:56:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T09:56:46","slug":"half-sick-of-shadows-and-indiebrag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/23\/half-sick-of-shadows-and-indiebrag\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Sick of Shadows and IndieBrag"},"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>I was going to write a blog on something to do with Alexa, but that will now appear after the Christmas holiday break. That&#8217;s partly because I have been moving rocks and making new gravel paths, and ending the day somewhat fatigued&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So instead, this is just a short post about an email I received last night, saying that <em>Half Sick of Shadows<\/em> has been awarded an IndieBrag Medallion.<\/p>\n<p>Specially, I read this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We have completed the review process for your book \u201cHalf Sick of Shadows\u201d and I am pleased to inform you that it has been selected to receive a B.R.A.G. Medallion. We would now like to assist you in gaining recognition of your fine work.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In return, we ask that you permit us to add your book to the listing of Medallion honorees on our website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bragmedallion.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.bragmedallion.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, needless to say I haven&#8217;t yet had time to do the stuff at their website &#8211; that will follow over the next few days &#8211; but that was a very nice piece of news just as the holiday break is starting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write a blog on something to do with Alexa, but that will now appear after the Christmas holiday break. That&#8217;s partly because I have been moving rocks and making new gravel paths, and ending the day somewhat fatigued&#8230; So instead, this is just a short post about an email I received &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/23\/half-sick-of-shadows-and-indiebrag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Half Sick of Shadows and IndieBrag<\/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":[38,8,47,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-promotion","category-fantasy","category-half-sick-of-shadows","category-history","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}