{"id":4518,"date":"2017-01-06T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2017-01-06T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:34:25","slug":"slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-has-a-real-release-date-also-a-new-blurb-from-lawrence-m-schoen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/06\/slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-has-a-real-release-date-also-a-new-blurb-from-lawrence-m-schoen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom&#8217; has a real release date; also, a new blurb from Lawrence M. Schoen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized I&#8217;ve never mentioned that <em>Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em> now has a release date that we can believe. It&#8217;s June 13! That&#8217;s the day we <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/SOTSOD_mockup.jpg\" alt=\"Mockup of the finished book\" width=\"270\" height=\"376\" class=\"img_hang_right\"> need to think about.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> thinking about it. I don&#8217;t know what <em>you&#8217;re<\/em> doing.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been through the line and copy editing passes, and though I&#8217;ve yet to see a galley with all the illustrations in place it seems like the book has begun to make its stealthy, mysterious passage through the world. If you define &#8220;the world&#8221; as &#8220;people who know my editor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I think this is true is that there&#8217;s a new review  in the book&#8217;s feed from Macmillan.<\/p><br \/>\n<div class=\"synopsis\" style=\"clear:both;\"><p>\u201cSchenck presents the best future from our past. Robotastic and charming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><em>\u2015 Lawrence M. Schoen, author of Barsk: The Elephants&#8217; Graveyard<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, yep. <em>Robotastic<\/em>. And <em>charming<\/em>, a word that&#8217;s been used to describe the book before. I never suspected that it was charming, and the idea took some getting used to; but I&#8217;m on board with it now. Charm away. Get all charming, book. Go forth and be charming. On June 13. In bookstores, and everyplace else.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized I&#8217;ve never mentioned that &#8216;Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom&#8217; now has a release date that we can believe. It&#8217;s June 13! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","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=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}