{"id":7952,"date":"2017-05-02T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T10:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=7952"},"modified":"2017-05-02T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T10:48:55","slug":"its-publication-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/australia\/its-publication-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s publication day."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7889\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7889\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WBbTCc-e1491738034562.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding Bells by The Creek published by Farwell Publications\" width=\"229\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I think the cover perfectly captures the feel of the book.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today is one of those days that authors love. It&#8217;s publication day for Wedding Bells by the Creek &#8211; the 5th book in the Coorah Creek Series.<\/p>\n<p>Publication day is the culmination of months of work. It&#8217;s\u00a0not just the writing. Before the first word is even written, I have to spend time thinking about the story and the characters and what the book will be about. When the writing is finished, there&#8217;s revision and\u00a0 editing, working to get the cover just\u00a0right. Coming up with a blurb and a shout line.<\/p>\n<p>But all that is worthwhile when I look at the final book.\u00a0 Of course, that&#8217;s when the nervousness sets in.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Will my readers like the story? Will they love my hero? Are there things about the book I could have made better?<\/p>\n<p>That nervousness abates a bit if I get a few good reviews, but it never entirely goes away. Well, at least not until I get so involved with the next book that I don&#8217;t have time to think about being nervous.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; thank you to everyone who has supported my Coorah Creek series &#8211; I hope you like this book.<\/p>\n<p>And thank you everyone who contributed to my\u00a0seeing this on Amazon&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7955\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7955\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5-hnr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"328\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This helps ease my insecurities &#8211; just a bit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is one of those days that authors love. It&#8217;s publication day for Wedding Bells by the Creek &#8211; the 5th book in the Coorah Creek Series. Publication day is the culmination&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-reading","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}