{"id":66,"date":"2011-03-14T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=66"},"modified":"2011-03-12T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T19:58:09","slug":"the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"The more things change, the more they stay the same."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, quite a bit of book news to share this week. \u00c2\u00a0First of all, my debut book has a new title! \u00c2\u00a0The book formerly known as CHASERS is now known as:<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">WITH OR WITHOUT YOU<\/h1>\n<p>I dig it. Well, I should. I suggested it. \u00c2\u00a0 And the best part of the name change? \u00c2\u00a0The initials: WOWY!<\/p>\n<p>With the new title comes a slightly new cover (man, I love my cover):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WOWYfrnt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67\" title=\"WOWYfrnt\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WOWYfrnt-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WOWYfrnt-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WOWYfrnt-733x1024.jpg 733w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WOWYfrnt.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if all these changes weren&#8217;t quite enough, the release date has also changed. \u00c2\u00a0Look for WITH OR WITHOUT YOU nearly two months earlier, on <strong>May 24, 2011<\/strong>. \u00c2\u00a0Yes, that&#8217;s right: the day before <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Towel_Day\">Towel Day<\/a>! Or maybe Towel Day Eve. \u00c2\u00a0It will be all the more important to be a hoopy frood who knows exactly where your towel&#8211;and copy of WITH OR WITHOUT YOU&#8211;are. *<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>And <\/strong><\/em>I&#8217;m thrilled that <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonmyersauthor.com\/home.html\">Jason Myers<\/a>, author of the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1240370.Exit_Here_\">EXIT HERE<\/a> (and the forthcoming DEAD END), gave me the following blurb: &#8220;A near perfect book for the times as Brian Farrey has provided the entire LGBT community, especially it&#8217;s teens, an important novel that&#8217;s as unnerving as it is page turning. A tough task to do and Farrey pulls it off with ferociousness and grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moving up the release date means I&#8217;m doing my headless chicken routine to prepare for book promotion on a slightly accelerated schedule. \u00c2\u00a0Stay tuned for news of a blog tour, contests, and other nifty events. \u00c2\u00a0Go-Go-Gadget Book Launch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*=Just to be clear: WITH OR WITHOUT YOU has <em>nothing<\/em> to do with THE HITCHHIKER&#8217;S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. Absolutely nothing. I&#8217;m just excited that my book is coming out so close to something associated with one of my favorite books of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, quite a bit of book news to share this week. \u00c2\u00a0First of all, my debut book has a new title! \u00c2\u00a0The book formerly known as CHASERS is now known as: WITH OR WITHOUT YOU I dig it. Well, I should. I suggested it. \u00c2\u00a0 And the best part of the name change? \u00c2\u00a0The initials: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}