{"id":322,"date":"2017-10-11T12:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:09:51","slug":"october-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/october-update\/","title":{"rendered":"October Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><\/h4>\n<h2>Toric&#8217;s Dagger<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Toric&#8217;s Dagger<\/em> has fallen at the semi-final stage of the SPFBO contest. The blogger ventureadlaxre put the book into her Top 10, but\u2014let&#8217;s be blunt\u2014still didn&#8217;t like it very much. You can read her review <a href=\"https:\/\/ventureadlaxre.com\/2017\/09\/17\/review-torics-dagger-by-jamie-edmundson\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book has also recently been reviewed by The Weatherwax Report, a prolific fantasy blogger who is taking on 100 of the self-published books in the contest. She has a great site and you can read her review of <em>Toric&#8217;s Dagger<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/weatherwaxreport.blog\/2017\/10\/09\/esmes-indie-highlightsspfbo-torics-dagger-by-jamie-edmundsun\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Bolivar&#8217;s Sword<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finished writing the sequel to <em>Toric&#8217;s Dagger<\/em> and I am really happy with it. I think it&#8217;s a darker, more expansive follow up. The &#8216;fellowship&#8217; from book one has now been scattered to the four winds, and war comes to Dalriya.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m transitioning into the publishing phase for this book, which includes things like formatting &amp; cover design. When I get more news on this I will post it here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Virtual Fantasy Conference<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking part in the 2017 VFC, hosted on Facebook. It&#8217;s a chance for fantasy fans to connect with authors and runs for a week, from 15-22 October. The organisers have worked really hard to make it interactive and fun, with panels on fantasy topics. Please visit my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/128845214507819\/\">Author Booth\/Page here<\/a> from the 15th October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toric&#8217;s Dagger &nbsp; Toric&#8217;s Dagger has fallen at the semi-final stage of the SPFBO contest. The blogger ventureadlaxre put the book into her Top 10, but\u2014let&#8217;s be blunt\u2014still didn&#8217;t like it very much. You can read her review here. The book has also recently been reviewed by The Weatherwax Report, a prolific fantasy blogger who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/october-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;October Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,68,34,70,69],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bolivars-sword","tag-the-weatherwax-report","tag-torics-dagger","tag-vfc","tag-virtual-fantasy-conference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/VFC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85DkH-5c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamieedmundson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}