{"id":284,"date":"2013-10-25T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:31:59","slug":"out-to-launch-not-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/10\/25\/out-to-launch-not-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Out to Launch, not Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\n\tmso-para-margin:0in;\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The appearance of a blog hiatus is really a shift in gears for a few months. It&#8217;s been an intensive course in media kit development! I&#8217;ve written and rewritten, edited and reorganized the various pages of the kit in an effort to create a thoughtful, informational landing spot for people curious about who I am and what I write.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The media kit supports my debut novel, <em>84 Ribbons<\/em>, my newest book launch. Since I&#8217;ve moved from non-fiction to women&#8217;s fiction, my media shifted as well. Now I&#8217;ve embarked on a different sort of writing: not non-fiction <em>and<\/em> not fiction writing. It&#8217;s non-technical, technical. How&#8217;s that for a conundrum? It&#8217;s getting the facts down in conversational paragraphs. It&#8217;s talking about myself in third person. It&#8217;s also finding the distinctive qualities of my book that asks reviewers and readers answer, WIFFM: What&#8217;s In It For Me (the person reading the pages of the kit).<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s my note from home, my excuse for being tardy. I&#8217;m back now. Let the blogging recommence! Let&#8217;s &#8216;do lunch&#8217; together over wonderful feasts of words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appearance of a blog hiatus is really a shift in gears for a few months. It&#8217;s been an intensive course in media kit development! I&#8217;ve written and rewritten, edited and reorganized the various pages of the kit in an effort to create a thoughtful, informational landing spot for people curious about who I am and what I write. The media kit supports my debut novel, 84 Ribbons, my newest book launch. Since I&#8217;ve moved from non-fiction to women&#8217;s fiction, my media shifted as well. Now I&#8217;ve embarked on a different sort of writing: not non-fiction and not fiction writing.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[31,30],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-musings","tag-media-kit","tag-wiffm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}