{"id":45,"date":"2020-02-17T05:48:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T05:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/?p=45"},"modified":"2020-02-17T05:48:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T05:48:25","slug":"not-the-progress-i-was-hoping-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Not the progress I was hoping for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I didn&#8217;t get as much time to finish my book as I had planned I did get 3711 out of 6K of my goal done for book 2 in January.<\/p>\n<p>I have been reading Lucky&#8217;s Marines by Joshua James.\u00a0 He is doing a great job of writing a page turner.\u00a0 I got the box set for 99 cents and I have been reading them one right after another.\u00a0 Here is a link and as of me publishing this it is still on discount.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=cylentware-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B07X8FVSD1&amp;asins=B07X8FVSD1&amp;linkId=560b4128a6f7fa3ed70506e41db11147&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=false&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066C0&amp;bg_color=FFFFFF\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It has me a little worried that all 6 books went for 99 cents since I am trying to sell my first for 3.99.\u00a0 But I am sure they were released for higher.<\/p>\n<p>I also like how he handles the AI talking directly into his mind.\u00a0 My editor and I have gone back and forth on how to relate this in my manuscript.\u00a0 I might change this to mimic Mr. James&#8217; style.\u00a0 It reads really well and you know who is talking right away.<\/p>\n<p>I took another step back and looked at my outside of work projects and how I can finish them all up.\u00a0 I think I am going to aim for May 1st.\u00a0 I want to release it before the Career Author Summit.\u00a0 Which is May 15th &#8211; 16th in Nashville.\u00a0 I am going. I am pretty excited to learn a bunch from far more advanced authors than myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I didn&#8217;t get as much time to finish my book as I had planned I did get 3711 out of 6K of my goal done for book 2 in January. I have been reading Lucky&#8217;s Marines by Joshua James.\u00a0 He is doing a great job of writing a page turner.\u00a0 I got the box [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chadboyer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}