{"id":3351,"date":"2016-05-27T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:52:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:52:49","slug":"at-clockwork-alchemy-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/at-clockwork-alchemy-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"At Clockwork Alchemy 2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20150525_230724.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"20150525_230724.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greetings, fellow adventurers! At long last, that time has rolled around again &#8211; Clockwork Alchemy, the Bay Area\u2019s premiere steampunk convention. I\u2019ll be here this weekend, most importantly for the launch of THIRTY DAYS LATER!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/30dl-1000x1600-BN.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" alt=\"30dl-1000x1600-B&amp;N.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SO this year blogging every day was supposed to be a thing, but life is more important, and after taking care of my mom after her knee surgery, being there for my wife, and doing a good job at that thing I do that keeps a roof over our heads and food in the cats\u2019 bellies, the next most important thing was \u2026 well, not 30DL, it was THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160507_170226.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"20160507_170226.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But that ain\u2019t out yet, as it is still in copyedit. We may go another round on this one. Whatever. I want this book to win the Hugo and I trust my editor, so we\u2019re going to work on it and Get It Right. But AFTER making sure my editor did not send ninjas to have me killed, the next most important thing was launching THIRTY DAYS LATER on time!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/index2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"index2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THIRTY DAYS LATER is Thinking Ink\u2019s first full length fiction anthology, and we wanted to get this one right, or at least not so wrong that all the books were gone. Now that I am at the con with a giant pile of books, at last, I can breathe easy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160512_1935481.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\" alt=\"IMG_20160512_193548(1).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I can finish my slides for Saturday\u2019s presentation. Aaaa!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, fellow adventurers! At long last, that time has rolled around again &#8211; Clockwork Alchemy, the Bay Area\u2019s premiere steampunk convention. I\u2019ll be here this weekend, most importantly for the&#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":[133,4,67,66,129],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-steampunk","category-uncategorized","tag-clockwork-alchemy","tag-dragon-writers","tag-gaslights-and-rayguns","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","tag-thinking-ink-press","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","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=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}