{"id":1507,"date":"2015-08-19T13:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T17:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2015-08-19T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T17:09:44","slug":"writingpersonal-blowing-the-dust-out-of-the-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"(writing\/personal) blowing the dust out of the corners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing that it&#8217;s only electronic dust, because lord, there is a lot of it! I have been dealing with depression, family illness, and stress, so I haven&#8217;t been writing. Or blogging. Or really doing anything, to be honest. And I don&#8217;t know that the stress is going away soon, so I&#8217;m trying to pick up the threads as I can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We got Molly and Drew safely married, and the stage is beginning to be set for the next Advent story that will be posted in December.\u00a0<em>Winter Secrets<\/em>, the first Advent book, is off to the editor, so I have to make a decision of how I&#8217;m going to do that. I know folks want actual books, but that might have to wait until I can sell some other books (ahem). Self-publishing is expensive. But I&#8217;m still hoping to do it! It will at the very least be available as an ebook this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also working on two other books right now:\u00a0<em>Deep Waters<\/em>, the first Sapphire Pendragon novel (yeah, I know, it was supposed to be a novella, but it decided against that); and\u00a0<em>Resonant Frequencies<\/em>, which is an urban fantasy that isn&#8217;t about saving the world. Which is odd, but there you go. It&#8217;s about elves, artists, and the need we all have to be connected to someone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also now blogging for<a href=\"https:\/\/dkparanormal.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Dark Knight Paranormal<\/a>, the NH affiliate of TAPS (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/ghosthunters\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic Paranormal Society<\/a>), so you can find me there Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I&#8217;m hoping that between there and here, I actually start getting a presence out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to be honest &#8211; I could use the support now. For the folks who want to know how they can help: buy my books (especially the ones I have on Amazon). Promote my books. And for the sake of all the gods, remind me to write! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing that it&#8217;s only electronic dust, because lord, there is a lot of it! I have been dealing with depression, family illness, and stress, so I haven&#8217;t been writing. Or blogging. Or really doing anything, to be honest. And I don&#8217;t know that the stress is going away soon, so I&#8217;m trying to pick &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1507\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,38,74,12,85,22],"tags":[61,76,7,34,60,86,66],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advent","category-ghost-hunting","category-pendragon","category-personal","category-resonant-frequencies","category-writing","tag-advent","tag-ghost-hunting","tag-life","tag-pendragon","tag-personal","tag-resonant-frequencies","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}