{"id":2540,"date":"2014-05-28T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T05:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:53:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:53:55","slug":"it-was-a-good-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/it-was-a-good-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a good weekend &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clockwork-aftermath-01.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"clockwork-aftermath-01.png\" name=\"clockwork-aftermath-01.png\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and not just because I sold 22 copies of my books at Clockwork Alchemy. Though that was a big part of it, the sales themselves aren&#8217;t what really mattered to me; it was that 22 copies of my books are in people&#8217;s hands, and they were in people&#8217;s hands because for the very first time, I had an author&#8217;s table.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clockwork-aftermath-02.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"clockwork-aftermath-02.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the four days that I sat behind that author&#8217;s table, behind a fort of my books and my postcards and my wife&#8217;s steampunk gears and shelves and even a small tiger, I became part of a community of people &#8211; and not just even the wonderful people at the Clockwork Alchemy author&#8217;s alley, whom I hope to see again for years and years to come.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clockwork-aftermath-03.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"clockwork-aftermath-03.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No, I became a part of the broader community of science fiction authors, connecting with their readers through science fiction conventions, the way I myself first really connected with the science fiction community, after many years of reading alone. I&#8217;ve been a published author for years, and written in a small community for longer, but now I feel connected as never before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clockwork-aftermath-04.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"clockwork-aftermath-04.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a new level of interaction, a new level of connection, a new opportunity for a whole family to create an author&#8217;s delight by buying their books and holding them over their heads like mouse ears. Somehow, everything feels more real to me, and I am more inspired than ever before to keep writing and to get the ideas in my head out \u2026 and into yours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clockwork-aftermath-05.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"clockwork-aftermath-05.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hope we both enjoy it! God bless,<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 and not just because I sold 22 copies of my books at Clockwork Alchemy. Though that was a big part of it, the sales themselves aren&#8217;t what really mattered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,199,1],"tags":[6,102,4,67,66,87,5],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-steampunk","category-uncategorized","tag-dakota-frost","tag-doorways-to-extra-time","tag-dragon-writers","tag-gaslights-and-rayguns","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","tag-the-dresanians","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}