{"id":3360,"date":"2016-06-15T22:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T05:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:48:40","slug":"skindancer-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/15\/skindancer-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Skindancer in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/skindancer-in-sweden.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"skindancer-in-sweden.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think I\u2019ve mentioned this on Facebook, but not here: sometimes real life lurks beneath the surface. I read what I write, both to myself and out loud; I have beta readers and editor and publishers; I follow the reviews of my books; I follow their sales; and I pay close attention when people mention they\u2019ve seen or read or liked my books. And then something happens which exceeds your expectations &#8211; a friend going to the ICRA conference sent me this pic of a full copy of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dakotafrost.com\/\">Skindancer trilogy<\/a> in a bookstore in Sweden:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/13221748_10100698420920804_1586742640059964781_n.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"13221748_10100698420920804_1586742640059964781_n.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It <i>is<\/i> an English-Swedish science fiction bookstore with an extremely complete collection \u2026 but still, my trade-paperback sized volumes from a midsize publisher are up there with mass-market paperbacks from the big N publishing houses. That means someone on the other side of the world \u2026 someone with no contact with me, someone with no contact with my publisher that I know of \u2026 decided to compile a list of urban fantasy series \u2026 and mine was included.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. I\u2019m honored. And a little bit shocked.<\/p>\n<p>Must write faster.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I\u2019ve mentioned this on Facebook, but not here: sometimes real life lurks beneath the surface. I read what I write, both to myself and out loud; I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,193,1,198],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-real-life","category-uncategorized","category-urban-fantasy","tag-dakota-frost","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","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=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}