{"id":3457,"date":"2009-12-07T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2009-12-07T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T16:31:07","slug":"the-excitement-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/the-excitement-builds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Excitement Builds!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think we can all agree that I’ve been admirably restrained with respect to talking about my upcoming book<\/a> before it even appears. (Maybe you don’t think so, but believe me — I’ve been restraining myself.) Die-hards have been able to follow the excitement at the Facebook page<\/a>, where fascinating details about cover blurbs and review copies have been politely sequestered.<\/p>\n

All that is about to end soon! Yesterday I received in the mail an actual copy of the hardcover, a tangible artifact testifying to the reality of this long-anticipated event. Here it is, rubbing shoulders with a few other well-known bestsellers.<\/p>\n

\"From<\/a><\/p>\n

The official release date is January 7. Yes, there will be a Kindle edition<\/a>; at some point later in January there will even be an audio book<\/a>. And I’m certainly not going to stop you from ordering it<\/a>. But my publisher tells me that what would be really great is if a bunch of people ordered it exactly on January 7. So that’s when I’ll really<\/em> be encouraging you.<\/p>\n

Even after the book is out, I don’t want to turn the blog into all book, all the time. But I do want to try a book club experiment, where we go through individual chapters, one week at a time, with me revealing some of the thought processes that went into each chapter and all of us having a back-and-forth discussion. Should be fun!<\/p>\n

No formal book tour, but I’ll be doing a few readings and events. Check the Facebook page<\/a> or book web page<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think we can all agree that I’ve been admirably restrained with respect to talking about my upcoming book before it even appears. (Maybe you don’t think so, but believe me — I’ve been restraining myself.) Die-hards have been able to follow the excitement at the Facebook page, where fascinating details about cover blurbs and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-time","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}