{"id":5382,"date":"2019-08-15T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/seriously-fuck-cancer\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:12:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:12:54","slug":"seriously-fuck-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=5382","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, Fuck Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have\u00a0<em>far<\/em> too many friends and colleagues, people I genuinely care about, suffering through one form or another of cancer right now. Hell,\u00a0<em>one\u00a0<\/em>would be &quot;far too many.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of wishing there was &quot;something I could do.&quot; So I&#8217;m doing something, however minor a gesture it may be.<\/p>\n<p>I have dropped the price of my short story collection, <a href=&quot;http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php\/novels\/01_xx_strange-new-words\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strange New Words<\/a>, across <a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00H7JHUJG\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00H7JHUJG&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=mouseferatu-20&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/375197&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smashwords<\/a>, and <a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.drivethrufiction.com\/product\/121770\/Strange-New-Words-Tales-of-Heroism-Hi-jinks-and-Horror&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DriveThruFiction<\/a>. This applies to both e-copies and hardcopies. I haven&#8217;t decided yet if this price drop is permanent or temporary.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u00a0<em>have<\/em> decided is that I will donate the entirety of any profit I make on sales of Strange New Words, throughout the entire month of June. Not to an institute or to a program, but directly to a handful of the people I know who are struggling with cancer right now, to help defray the ungodly medical costs these things accumulate. It probably won&#8217;t be much, in the grand scheme of things, but I&#8217;d like for it to be\u00a0<em>something<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t picked up SNW yet, please consider doing so now. If you have, please encourage other people to. And definitely help me spread the word, if you&#8217;d be so kind.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much, every one of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have\u00a0far too many friends and colleagues, people I genuinely care about, suffering through one form or another of cancer right now. Hell,\u00a0one\u00a0would be &quot;far too many.&quot; I&#8217;m tired of wishing there was &quot;something I could do.&quot; So I&#8217;m doing something, however minor a gesture it may be. I have dropped the price of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","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=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}