{"id":14,"date":"2011-07-18T21:43:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T11:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/?p=14"},"modified":"2011-07-18T21:43:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T11:43:44","slug":"two-weeks-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/2011\/07\/two-weeks-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Weeks Later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a little over two weeks since \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The First Sacrifice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d went live, and in that time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been promoting it through friends, family and social media. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been tremendously encouraged by the response so far. I already have my first Amazon review, which gave me four stars out of five. To my delight, people like the cover (I am <em>very <\/em>happy with how I went about putting it together\u00e2\u20ac\u201c stock photo websites offer some truly great content available at very reasonable prices). And, most importantly, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m selling a steady trickle of copies, including two in the last couple of days! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a lot of money, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s better than nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rome wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t built in a day, of course; writing and releasing a novel will require plenty of hard work, far more than it took for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The First Sacrifice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. But now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve experienced the freedom and the fulfilment of self-publishing&#8230; and best of all, the thrill of having a work out in the open.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to where this road will take me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a little over two weeks since \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The First Sacrifice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d went live, and in that time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been promoting it through friends, family and social media. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been tremendously encouraged by the response so far. I already have my first Amazon review, which gave me four stars out of five. To my delight, &#8230; <a title=\"Two Weeks Later&#8230;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/2011\/07\/two-weeks-later\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Two Weeks Later&#8230;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}