{"id":2364,"date":"2013-02-09T11:18:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2013-02-09T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T20:41:42","slug":"mini-update-from-em-im-back-and-busier-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/mini-update-from-em-im-back-and-busier-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini update from EM: I&#8217;m Back and Busier Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/edilson-wet1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2062\" alt=\"edilson-wet1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/edilson-wet1.jpg?resize=315%2C471\" width=\"315\" height=\"471\" \/><\/a>Between computer issues (my laptop was out of commission with a messed-up keyboard that had to be repaired), being sick and not being able to use my work computer, I&#8217;ve been offline for most of the past ten days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m digging my way through a backlog of emails and working on Smooth Draft clients&#8217; edits when I get home from the day job. What had been a part-time gig for tax season has turned into nearly full time work and it means I have less time than ever for my personal writing projects and spending time online.<\/p>\n<p>I do have quite a bit of good news and some upcoming projects I want to announce. Here&#8217;s a short recap of what&#8217;s going on, and then I will be doing longer posts on some of the individual topics.<\/p>\n<p><b>Great news:<\/b> a new contract with Total-E-Bound, two new covers to share, an award for <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/amz-ht6\"><em>Hostile Takeover<\/em><\/a> in the GR MMRomance Group.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be teaching two <b>tax tips for authors<\/b> courses online: 1. Starts Feb 15 on my Yahoo Group and 2. Will be taught at Savvy Authors starting March 11. I&#8217;ll be posting more about the first one this week.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I&#8217;m working on <b><i>Jaded<\/i><\/b>, Book 3 in Precious Gems, a project with Shira Anthony and deciding on Book 4 in Delectable series. Maybe I&#8217;ll open that up to a vote!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between computer issues (my laptop was out of commission with a messed-up keyboard that had to be repaired), being sick and not being able to use my work computer, I&#8217;ve been offline for most of the past ten days. I&#8217;m digging my way through a backlog of emails and working on Smooth Draft clients&#8217; edits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[394,479,180],"tags":[229,480,938,355,466,459],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award","category-news-2","category-personal","tag-about-me","tag-announcements","tag-award","tag-hostile-takeover","tag-stay-tuned","tag-tax-tips-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-C8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}