{"id":4705,"date":"2017-05-15T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:20:03","slug":"news-from-slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-the-book-giveaway-an-excerpt-some-illustrations-and-pictures-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/15\/news-from-slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-the-book-giveaway-an-excerpt-some-illustrations-and-pictures-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"News from ‘Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom’ – the book giveaway, an excerpt, some illustrations, and pictures of the book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a round-up of news about Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em>. There’s a new excerpt at the Tor\/Forge blog, while the ten-book giveaway at Goodreads is winding down with just hours to go.<\/p>\n

There’s also a preview of the illustrations and the book’s chapter titles.<\/p>\n

And much to my own surprise (since I don’t have one yet) there are some photographs of the real, live, actual, printed book as it waits for your order. <\/p>\n

And, well, everyone else’s order too. But mostly yours.<\/p>\n

But first, a word from Publishers Weekly<\/h3>\n

One of the four big trades for book news and reviews has posted its very friendly review of the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The review starts with a description of the plot and a few words about the world in which the book takes place; then it ends with this:<\/p>\n

\u201cA genuine love for the material makes this a strong and entertaining debut.\u201d<\/p>

\u2015 Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Like I said, friendly.<\/p>\n\n

The GoodReads giveaway<\/h3>\n

As I write, the Tor Books giveaway for Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em> ends soon. That’s less than sixteen hours from now.<\/p>\n

So if you live in the United States or Canada you should dive right in and get in line<\/a>. The odds are currently at 78 to 1. That’s way better <\/em> than your chance of being struck by lightning.<\/p>\n\n\"Dust<\/a>\n\n

An excerpt from the book<\/h3>\n

This just appeared at the Tor\/Forge blog: it’s an excerpt from the book’s first chapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can do some mental composition here by combining the excerpt with the Chapter One illustration in this other, different preview post at the Tor.com web site<\/a>. Can’t you?<\/p>\n\n

Yeah, I forgot one<\/h3>\n

That’s right. I just referred to the Tor.com preview post<\/a>, which shows several of the book’s illustrations and calls out its pulpy chapter titles. Like “Return of the Plumber of Prophecy”, which is really does describe<\/em> what’s happening in the chapter.<\/p>\n

Anybody who’s experienced a Plumbing Emergency can tell you that plumbing is of vast (and perhaps galactic) importance.<\/p>\n\n

Pictures of the book<\/h3>\n

I may have saved the best for last, here, or maybe the sight of these pictures is just so strange, five years after I started the book, that I don’t quite know what to think about them.<\/p>\n

My editor posted these shots last week. You can see a stack of the real, final, printed books:<\/p>\n\n

\"Slaves<\/div>\n\n

And the book opened up to one of its two-page spreads:<\/p>\n\n\"Opened\n\n

And, finally, a view of the book’s second endpaper:<\/p>\n\n\"The\n\n

Aaaaaaaaand that’s it for today. Remember, Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em> will be available in all the usual places on June 13, just one month from now.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a round-up of news about Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom. There’s a new excerpt at the Tor\/Forge blog, while the ten-book giveaway at Goodreads is winding down with just hours to go. Also: an excerpt, some illustrations, and pictures.<\/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-4705","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\/4705","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=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}