{"id":1850,"date":"2013-07-22T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T20:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T20:42:46","slug":"vikas-avenger-at-kickstarter-one-more-stretch-goal-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/22\/vikas-avenger-at-kickstarter-one-more-stretch-goal-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Vika&#8217;s Avenger at Kickstarter: one more stretch goal to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;\">\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/217993880\/publish-lawrence-watt-evans-vikas-avenger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/Vikas_Avenger_03.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"402\" border=\"0\" style=\"float:right;\" alt=\"Lawrence Watt-Evans and Vika's Avenger, at Kickstarter\"><\/a>Lawrence Watt-Evans&#8217; <em>Vika&#8217;s Avenger<\/em> is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/217993880\/publish-lawrence-watt-evans-vikas-avenger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less than 60 hours from its Kickstarter deadline<\/a>, and it&#8217;s less than $1000 away from its next stretch goal: an appendix called <em>A Traveler&#8217;s Guide to Ragbaan<\/em> that will give readers a broader, different sort of look at the ancient offworld city where most of the story&#8217;s events take place.<\/p>\n<br>\n<p>Now, it could be said that I don&#8217;t have a horse in the race any more; with the last stretch goal the budget for interior illustrations brought their total up to six, and they&#8217;re going to stay there: the author and I have worked out a plan for which scenes to illustrate, and it ought to make a nice spread throughout the book.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But I have the advantage of having read the unedited manuscript and I know that you and I would both like a chance to see a little deeper into the layers of history &#8211; most of it misunderstood, or forgotten &#8211; that lie beneath the airship docks, the ruins, and the palaces and taverns of Ragbaan.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And who knows? It&#8217;s not impossible that we might learn a little more about this creature, who is not Vika and is not her avenger, which is about all I can say on the matter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The cover should be finished this week; after that I&#8217;ll be diving into those  six black and white illustrations. So I know what <em>I&#8217;ll<\/em> be doing: I just don&#8217;t know<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/217993880\/publish-lawrence-watt-evans-vikas-avenger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> if you&#8217;ll be in there with me<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Watt-Evans&#8217; Vika&#8217;s Avenger is now less than 60 hours from its Kickstarter deadline, and it&#8217;s less than $1000 away from its next stretch goal: an appendix called A Traveler\u2019s Guide to Ragbaan that will give readers a broader, different sort of look at the ancient offworld city where most of the story&#8217;s events take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}