{"id":1633,"date":"2016-05-08T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2016-05-08T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:28:38","slug":"writing-updates-and-a-blog-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1633","title":{"rendered":"(writing) Updates and a blog tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailytea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tea-party-set-winter-in-the-woods-surrounded-by-deep-blue-sky.png\" width=\"702\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(above image from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailytea.com\/pop\/smile-winter-tea-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Tea<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about two and a half weeks before I leave for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balticon.org\/\">Balticon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concarolinas.org\/\">ConCarolinas<\/a>, and I&#8217;m starting to get a little (okay, a lot) panicky. I&#8217;m busy writing blog posts for the upcoming blog tour for\u00a0<em>Winter&#8217;s Secret,<\/em> which starts on May 16th! Since that&#8217;s about a week away, I realized I should probably let you guys know where I&#8217;ll be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Winter&#8217;s Secret<\/em> Blog Tour<\/p>\n<p>Monday, May 16 &#8211; I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbryski.com\/\">KT Bryski&#8217;s blog<\/a>, talking about music and what I&#8217;m currently listening to. Considering how much music is at the heart of\u00a0<em>Winter&#8217;s Secrets,<\/em> it&#8217;s a good post to start off with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 19th &#8211; I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/gypsylaura.com\/\">Laura Nicole&#8217;s blog<\/a>, talking about finding time to write. She&#8217;ll be blogging here the same day, but she hasn&#8217;t disclosed about what &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s some about <a href=\"http:\/\/gypsylaura.com\/sbc-ba-ep01\/\">The Stonebriar Casefiles<\/a>, which is her current podcasting project!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 20th &#8211; Schrodinger hijacks <a href=\"http:\/\/neciaphoenix.com\/blog\/\">Necia Phoenix&#8217;s blog<\/a> to answer some interview questions. (Her poor interviewer now needs therapy, really)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 21st &#8211; I&#8217;m over at <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamsofabrokenphoenix.wordpress.com\/\">Lai Zhao&#8217;s blog<\/a> talking about how I ended up writing an Advent story rather than ghosts. She&#8217;ll be over here at the same time, talking about depression and creativity, I think.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monday, May 23rd &#8211; I&#8217;m going to be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegeekgirlproject.com\/\">The Geek Girl Project<\/a>, talking about growing up a geek girl with a very supportive geek family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 26th &#8211; I&#8217;m going to be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerobertson.com\/#!blogger\/c1hqt\">Clara Robertson&#8217;s blog<\/a>, talking about inserting science fiction and horror into a fantasy world. If you&#8217;re interested about the Gates in the Carter&#8217;s Cove world, that&#8217;s what this one will be focusing a lot on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, June 1st &#8211; Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahewagner.com\/\">Sarah Wagner&#8217;s blog<\/a>, you&#8217;ll finally get the story of how Molly and Schrodinger met!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friday, June 3rd &#8211; I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/meadon.co.za\/blog\/\">Angela Meadon&#8217;s blog<\/a>, talking about the importance of darkness, even in a light fantasy world, and how to do it. Meanwhile, she&#8217;ll be here, talking about her new book\u00a0<em>Strong Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monday, June 6th &#8211; I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maimer.net\/\">Katharina Bordet&#8217;s blog<\/a>, talking about food and kitchen witches! (Hint: this is the Katharina and Mick from Carter&#8217;s Cove&#8217;s coffee shop!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, June 8th &#8211; I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/ljcbluemuse.blogspot.com\/\">LJ Cohen&#8217;s blog<\/a>, talking about evoking emotions in writing, and how much I can&#8217;t do poetry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, June 9th &#8211; I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellplested.com\/\">Mitchell Plested&#8217;s blog<\/a>, talking about how Carter&#8217;s Cove came to be, while he&#8217;s going to be over here, talking about his newest release!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monday, June 13th &#8211; I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/conniesrandomthoughts.com\/\">Connie Cockerell&#8217;s blog<\/a>, talking about how my love of tea and Christmas ended up producing a minor celebrity. I&#8217;m sure Schrodinger will make an appearance!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whew! That&#8217;s quite a bit of travel, and if you follow me and comment on all the blogs, you&#8217;ll be entered to win a special prize &#8211; a tin of your favorite tea from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adagio.com\/\">Adagio Teas<\/a>, plus a tea cup from Molly&#8217;s collection!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;d best get to writing. I owe my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/vgford?ty=h\">Patreon<\/a> folk some more Shanna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(above image from\u00a0The Daily Tea) It&#8217;s about two and a half weeks before I leave for Balticon and ConCarolinas, and I&#8217;m starting to get a little (okay, a lot) panicky. I&#8217;m busy writing blog posts for the upcoming blog tour for\u00a0Winter&#8217;s Secret, which starts on May 16th! Since that&#8217;s about a week away, I realized &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1633\">>>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":[14,32,89,87,22],"tags":[61,15,81,70,91,66],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-guest-post","category-patreon","category-tea","category-writing","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-food","tag-guest-post","tag-patreon","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633"}],"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=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}