{"id":491,"date":"2009-08-29T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.wordpress.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:26","slug":"evil-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/evil-editing","title":{"rendered":"Evil Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, that title makes it sound like I hate editing. Really with the right editor, it doesn&#8217;t have to hurt.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m done with round one (and a half) of edits for Retreat. I do a lot of piddly things that my poor editor Sharis Mayer has to correct. It seems I have an unnatural affection for the semicolon. Overall, it&#8217;s going well, and we should be finished soon, and then we start on Olivia&#8217;s Falling Star. Sharis is going to be sick of me before long \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I started a new book, still untitled, and the only characters with names are the antagonist and the sexy hero. I use &#8220;filler&#8221; names until I can come up with something, so right now my heroine is Jane Doe. It&#8217;s pretty irritating when I read back through a chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget the Labor Day Blog Tour that starts right here on Monday September 7th 2009. Over a dozen lickable laborers will be on hand for your viewing pleasure! I&#8217;ll post some more information closer to the date. You can win <a href=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.wordpress.com\/about\/grand-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\">this grand prize<\/a>, which will keep you busy for quite a few government holidays.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, that title makes it sound like I hate editing. Really with the right editor, it doesn&#8217;t have to hurt. I&#8217;m done with round one (and a half) of edits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WdCY-7V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}