{"id":1275,"date":"2014-01-06T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2014-01-05T20:45:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T01:45:33","slug":"writing-a-new-year-and-new-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"(writing) A new year, and new projects!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New projects and new goodies for my readers! \u00a0I unveiled this on Facebook earlier today, but now I&#8217;ll share with you guys. \u00a0I&#8217;ve taken a challenge up to self-publish 12 of my short stories, one each month. \u00a0The lovely JA Marlow designed this month&#8217;s cover for\u00a0<em>Convoy<\/em>, which is a short story set in a world of mine that I&#8217;m calling True Souls. \u00a0This story was originally published in the 2012 Forward Motion anthology &#8220;The Princess, the Boatman and the Lizard,&#8221; and is going to be available soon as an ebook. \u00a0I&#8217;ll definitely let you guys know when that&#8217;s available, but I have to share the cover now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Convoy-VGF-1000H-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1276 alignleft\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 2px 5px;\" alt=\"Convoy-VGF-1000H (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Convoy-VGF-1000H-1.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Convoy-VGF-1000H-1.jpg 667w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Convoy-VGF-1000H-1-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Convoy-VGF-1000H-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Convoy-VGF-1000H-1-466x700.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a>Isn&#8217;t it lovely? \u00a0I am SO happy with it!<\/p>\n<p>Now, this isn&#8217;t the only thing that I&#8217;m working on this year. \u00a0This year is the year of finishing and submitting things. \u00a0Right now, I&#8217;m working on the prewriting for my next novel, tentatively titled\u00a0<em>Faerytale Princess,<\/em> which is about a female executive who is literally stolen away from her work&#8217;s bathroom by a prince of a magic kingdom. \u00a0It&#8217;s a fun romp, and the plan is to have it finished and out to submission to agents before November.<\/p>\n<p>This month, I&#8217;m also starting to revise the very first Advent story, so it can be done as a novel. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t decided if I&#8217;m going to self-publish the Advent stories, or if I&#8217;m going to sub them as well. \u00a0I figure once I get them revised, I&#8217;ll decide.<\/p>\n<p>My goals for this year are pretty lofty. \u00a0I plan on subbing at least three projects to agents\/editors, writing and\/or publishing 12 short stories and writing four new projects. \u00a0Those include the next Pendragon novella, and the next Advent story.<\/p>\n<p>2014 is going to be MY year. \u00a0Be sure about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New projects and new goodies for my readers! \u00a0I unveiled this on Facebook earlier today, but now I&#8217;ll share with you guys. \u00a0I&#8217;ve taken a challenge up to self-publish 12 of my short stories, one each month. \u00a0The lovely JA Marlow designed this month&#8217;s cover for\u00a0Convoy, which is a short story set in a world &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1275\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,74,40,18,22],"tags":[67,34,77,66],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","category-pendragon","category-short-stories","category-to-do","category-writing","tag-goals","tag-pendragon","tag-short-stories","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}