{"id":2077,"date":"2015-05-18T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lentari.com\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2015-05-18T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T22:33:10","slug":"witw-tol5-update-approaching-20000-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/?p=2077","title":{"rendered":"WitW &#8211; ToL5 update:  approaching 20,000+ words!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has everyone figured out what WitW stands for yet?\u00a0 If not, hint:\u00a0 you can find it as preorder at Barnes &amp; Noble, Kobo, Apple&#8217;s iBookstore, and a few others.\u00a0 I&#8217;m working on making it a preorder for Kindle.\u00a0 KDP Select (Kindle) requires a cover of some sort before I can do that, so I have to come up with some type of generic cover first.\u00a0 As soon as I do I&#8217;ll release it as a preorder and then let everyone know.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s everyone doing?\u00a0 Are you having a great week so far?\u00a0 The temps are heating up here in AZ, but it isn&#8217;t too bad.\u00a0 Yet.\u00a0 In less than a month I&#8217;m expecting to have the AC on 24\/7.\u00a0 *sigh*\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s what you get when you live in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>I have a new Goodreads giveaway going.\u00a0 It&#8217;s for a signed print copy of A Portal for Your Thoughts (Tales of Lentari #3).\u00a0 This particular giveaway is open to residents of the US only, I&#8217;m afraid.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying to cut down on shipping expenses since the simple act of shipping one book overseas usually results in a bill that&#8217;s four times the worth of the book.\u00a0 Crazy, I know.\u00a0 And sorry to exclude some of you readers.\u00a0 Please don&#8217;t hold it against me.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the giveaway details&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"goodreadsGiveawayWidget138934\">\n<p><!-- Show static html as a placeholder in case js is not enabled --><\/p>\n<div class=\"goodreadsGiveawayWidget\" style=\"max-width: 350px; margin: 10px auto; padding: 10px 15px; border: 2px solid #EBE8D5; border-radius: 10px;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin: 0 0 10px !important; padding: 0 !important; font-style: italic; font-size: 20px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; text-align: center; color: #555;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\" target=\"_new\">Goodreads<\/a> Book Giveaway<\/h2>\n<div style=\"float: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25476066\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A Portal for Your Thoughts by Jeffrey M. Poole\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1430695119l\/25476066.jpg\" alt=\"A Portal for Your Thoughts by Jeffrey M. Poole\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 0 0 110px !important; padding: 0 0 0 0 !important;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25476066\">A Portal for Your Thoughts<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;\">by <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4595804.Jeffrey_M_Poole\">Jeffrey M. Poole<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"giveaway_details\">\n<p>Giveaway ends June 30, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/giveaway\/show\/138934\">giveaway details<\/a><br \/>\nat Goodreads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"goodreadsGiveawayWidgetEnterLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/giveaway\/enter_choose_address\/138934\">Enter to Win<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/giveaway\/widget\/138934\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still looking into the idea of getting personalized bookplates.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had quite a few readers want to know if they could purchase autographed copies of the books from me for their own collections.\u00a0 As I was mentioning earlier, shipping in the US (Media Mail) is quite reasonable.\u00a0 Get it outside the US and it becomes downright deplorable, so I&#8217;ve been looking into other options.\u00a0 Another author friend of mine was saying the same thing and he went that route.\u00a0 It&#8217;s working quite well so I&#8217;m seeing how feasible it is.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, if you haven&#8217;t already, sign up for the newsletter in order to get the link to the free Tales of Lentari short story.\u00a0 Hunt for Red Oskorlisk falls between the events of Lost City and Something Wyverian This Way Comes.\u00a0\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Had to think about that.\u00a0 Is that right?\u00a0\u00a0 I had to look it up on my iPad.\u00a0 Yep, that&#8217;s right.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, if you haven&#8217;t already, please consider leaving me a review wherever you purchased the book.\u00a0 Nothing will help an indie author out more than seeing positive reviews on Amazon, or Barnes &amp; Noble, or Kobo, etc.\u00a0 If you liked it, or hated it, I can take it.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I still think it&#8217;s incredible that I&#8217;ve published 7 books and am actively working on my 8th.\u00a0 Plans for the 9th are also underway and I am actively working on that story, too.\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 Two stories at the same time.\u00a0 I will warn you, though, ToL6 is going to be a little slower as this will be my first collaboration!\u00a0 That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 Another person is helping me write this one.\u00a0 Who?\u00a0 Well&#8230;\u00a0 you&#8217;re gonna have to wait and see!!!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now.\u00a0 Feel free to friend me on Facebook or Instagram, or just leave me a message here.\u00a0 Ask a question.\u00a0 I will answer.\u00a0 I promise!<\/p>\n<p>J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has everyone figured out what WitW stands for yet?\u00a0 If not, hint:\u00a0 you can find it as preorder at Barnes &amp; Noble, Kobo, Apple&#8217;s iBookstore, and a few others.\u00a0 I&#8217;m working on making it a preorder for Kindle.\u00a0 KDP Select (Kindle) requires a cover of some sort before I can do that, so I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,1,170,70,74],"tags":[154,119,183,29,69,12,190,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}