{"id":4478,"date":"2011-08-15T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/august-15-2011-a-whole-mess-of-little-announcements-and-columns\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:54:05","slug":"august-15-2011-a-whole-mess-of-little-announcements-and-columns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4478","title":{"rendered":"August 15, 2011: A whole mess of little announcements and columns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, what&#8217;ve we got this Monday morning? (Besides a burning desire that it not be Monday morning, I mean.)<\/p>\n<p>First, I&#8217;ve got a couple of new columns up. On the Pyr Books blog, <a href=&quot;http:\/\/pyrsf.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/lost-in-translation.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some thoughts on the use of language in fantasy novels<\/a>. I don&#8217;t mean made-up languages, like Tolkien&#8217;s Elvish and the like, I mean English.<\/p>\n<p>For you gamers, some ruminations about <a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.enworld.org\/showthread.php?p=5654359#post5654359&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my preferred playstyle and the use of plot without railroading<\/a> in D&amp;D and other RPGs, over on ENWorld.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Broken Time Blues<\/em> anthology, a book of fantasy, supernatural, and otherwise fantastic short stories set in the roaring 20s, <a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Broken-Time-Blues-Fantastic-Roaring\/dp\/1770530169\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1313010088&amp;sr=8-1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is now available at Amazon<\/a>. This includes my own short story, <a href=&quot;http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php\/short-stories\/02_ab_the-purloined-ledger\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&quot;The Purloined Ledger,&quot;<\/a> but you should buy it anyway.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Finally, just a bunch of reminders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=&quot;http:\/\/dlair.net\/austin\/2011\/08\/10\/ari-marmell-signing-neverwinter-campaign-the-goblin-corps\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My signing at Dragon&#8217;s Lair, at 6:00 on Wednesday.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=&quot;http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php\/news\/august-13-2011-con-schedules-and-new-release\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My schedule for ArmadilloCon.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be at <a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dragon*Con<\/a> this year, though I don&#8217;t have all of my schedule as of yet.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=&quot;http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php\/publishers\/py\/01_py_the-goblin-corps\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Goblin Corps<\/a> <\/em>is now<a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Goblin-Corps-The-ebook\/dp\/B005GR1L2I\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> available on Kindle<\/a> (though I&#8217;m still not sure when Nook or other e-formats are forthcoming).<\/li>\n<li>And finally, remember that my <a href=&quot;http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php\/aris-easiest-contest-ever\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Easiest Contest Ever<\/a> is still ongoing, and is equally applicable whether you&#8217;ve read any of my work or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, what&#8217;ve we got this Monday morning? (Besides a burning desire that it not be Monday morning, I mean.) First, I&#8217;ve got a couple of new columns up. On the Pyr Books blog, some thoughts on the use of language in fantasy novels. I don&#8217;t mean made-up languages, like Tolkien&#8217;s Elvish and the like, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}