{"id":90,"date":"2011-05-09T05:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=90"},"modified":"2011-05-08T07:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T12:18:29","slug":"the-book-the-blog-tour-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/the-book-the-blog-tour-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book, the Blog Tour, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As May 24 comes precariously closer, I&#8217;m being bombarded by reminders that, yes, I actually am about to have my first book published. \u00c2\u00a0First up: the actual book!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookfront.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-91\" title=\"bookfront\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookfront-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookfront-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookfront.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookspine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-92\" title=\"bookspine\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookspine-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookspine-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookspine.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookback.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-93\" title=\"bookback\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookback-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookback-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bookback.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It showed up at my door, looking all pretty!<\/p>\n<p>The next thing that&#8217;s making this all too real is I&#8217;m doing a blog tour! \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ll be doing guest posts, answering interview questions, and imparting Things You Never Knew You Never Knew About Me on the blogs of some of the nicest book bloggers on the web. \u00c2\u00a0First up this week:<\/p>\n<p>May 9&#8211;Interview with Kari at <a href=\"http:\/\/agoodaddiction.blogspot.com\/\">A Good Addiction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 10&#8211;Mandy hosts Top Five Songs to Write To on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellreadwife.com\/\">The Well-Read Wife<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 12&#8211;Zoe visits me at ages 6, 12, 16, and 20 for book recommendations over at <a href=\"http:\/\/inthenextroom.blogspot.com\/\">In The Next Room<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More blog tour stops to be announced soon. \u00c2\u00a0Much thanks to Kari, Mandy, and Zoe for sharing their blogs with me and kicking off the tour!<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon: details on The Contest. (No, not the one from <em>Seinfeld. <\/em>Pervs<em>.<\/em>) \u00c2\u00a0This Contest will be a chance to win some fabulous signed books by some of the best YA authors around AND there&#8217;s a chance to win a FULL manuscript critique by an actual, real live, honest-to-goodness young adult editor (for you writers out there)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As May 24 comes precariously closer, I&#8217;m being bombarded by reminders that, yes, I actually am about to have my first book published. \u00c2\u00a0First up: the actual book! It showed up at my door, looking all pretty! The next thing that&#8217;s making this all too real is I&#8217;m doing a blog tour! \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ll be doing [&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-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}