{"id":2668,"date":"2015-04-24T01:52:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:56:09","slug":"climbing-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/24\/climbing-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Camp-Nanowrimo-2015-04-24.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" alt=\"Camp Nanowrimo 2015-04-24.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I recently was talking with Debra Dixon, my editor for the Dakota Frost series, and we realized that if we wanted SPECTRAL IRON, Dakota Frost #4, to come out next year, we needed to get a final book (from me) in her hands by January to have time to edit it before year was out.<\/p>\n<p>Given that when we had this conversation we had not yet finished LIQUID FIRE (book 3) and I have yet to edit THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE, this caused some understandable panic.<\/p>\n<p>So, rather than keeping to my schedule to work on part 2 of PHANTOM SILVER (book 5) during this April, I decided to bump up my schedule and work on part 3 of SPECTRAL IRON so I&#8217;d have a draft done early this year.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s working &#8211; the story is coalescing &#8211; but as you can see from above, the copyediting and page proofing of LIQUID FIRE ate up a lot of my time to write SPECTRAL IRON.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m scrambling. Probably few blog posts until this month&#8217;s 50,000 added words are done.<\/p>\n<p>Onward!<\/p>\n<p>-Anthony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was talking with Debra Dixon, my editor for the Dakota Frost series, and we realized that if we wanted SPECTRAL IRON, Dakota Frost #4, to come out next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,197,199,1,198,202],"tags":[6,4,67,91,66,5],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-fiction","category-steampunk","category-uncategorized","category-urban-fantasy","category-writing","tag-dakota-frost","tag-dragon-writers","tag-gaslights-and-rayguns","tag-nanowrimo","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","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=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}