{"id":1323,"date":"2015-01-02T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2015-01-02T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T21:19:16","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The turn of the year is a time for looking both back and forwards. This is probably the forty seventh you&#8217;ve read, so to keep it brief, here\u2019s a quick summary of my year:<\/p>\n<p>Memorable events of 2014 (good and bad):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I published a book! \u2018The Plains of Kallanash\u2019 went live on 12th September 2014. [Kind of a roller-coaster, but mostly good]<\/li>\n<li>I learned that when you spend time writing, you get less reading done. [Bad]<\/li>\n<li>I taught myself the 400 steps necessary to obtain an EIN from Uncle Sam to avoid withholding tax on my book royalties (ha! If only\u2026), which involves dancing naked with unicorn feathers and the sacrifice of one\u2019s first-born (sorry, James, but needs must), not to mention visiting the American Embassy in London, which is almost as far from here as it\u2019s possible to get without falling into the ocean. And then the system was changed so I didn\u2019t need to do any of that. [Which is good, I think; well, very good for my first-born, obviously]<\/li>\n<li>I learned that I have a lot of kind online friends who went out and bought my book, and posted nice reviews. You lovely people. [Good]<\/li>\n<li>I learned that I will never get rich by writing books (but I kind of knew that anyway). [OK]<\/li>\n<li>I discovered that Australia in November is a very pleasant place to be. And the wine is awesome\u2026 [V. Good]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coming in 2015 (maybe):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Another book! \u2018The Fire Mages\u2019 will be published on 9th January 2015. You can now <a href=\"http:\/\/myBook.to\/firemages%20\">pre-order it<\/a> at your local Amazon.<\/li>\n<li>And another! \u2018The Mages of Bennamore\u2019 will be published late spring 2015.<\/li>\n<li>And yet another! \u2018The Mines of Asharim\u2019 might possibly round off my first year as a published author by appearing in September 2015. If all this sounds too prolific for words, bear in mind that in the year and a half I spent editing and polishing Kallanash and inching towards publication in a three steps forward, two back manner, I wrote another two and a bit books. So I kind of had them lined up, waiting.<\/li>\n<li>On the reading\/reviewing front, I\u2019d like to reduce my backlog of books somewhat, and not just by shuffling them from the to-read shelf to the to-read-sometime shelf on Goodreads. You know, by actually reading them. But I just keep getting distracted by all the shiny new books\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you all have the 2015 you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The turn of the year is a time for looking both back and forwards. This is probably the forty seventh you&#8217;ve read, so to keep it brief, here\u2019s a quick summary of my year: Memorable events of 2014 (good and bad): I published a book! \u2018The Plains of Kallanash\u2019 went live on 12th September 2014. [Kind of a roller-coaster, but mostly good] I learned that when you spend time writing, you get less reading done. [Bad] I taught myself the 400 steps necessary to obtain an EIN from Uncle Sam to avoid withholding tax on my book royalties (ha! If only\u2026), which involves dancing naked with unicorn feathers and the sacrifice of one\u2019s first-born (sorry, James, but needs must), not to mention visiting the American Embassy in London, which is almost as far from here as it\u2019s possible to get without falling into the ocean. And then the system was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}