{"id":15610,"date":"2008-06-13T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2008\/06\/13\/fin\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:44","slug":"fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2008\/06\/13\/fin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! I just finished my fourth novel, <em>Finitude<\/em>. It&#8217;s&#8221;&brvbar; hmm, I need to work on my elevator pitch. Okay, how about this?<br \/><em>It&#8217;s a lighthearted climate change action story about an insurance salesman at the end of the world.<\/em><br \/>Normally I get all weepy when I finish a book, but with this one I have to say I&#8217;m relieved. It&#8217;s such a <em>huge<\/em> freakin&#8217; topic &#8212; juggling all the different ideas I had in my head about it and wrangling them into a story was a lot of work!<br \/>I&#8217;m off to Canada next week for a reunion of the university theatre department I graduated from. It&#8217;s well-timed, getting to have a vacation after sorting out my work-work stuff and finishing this book. So I&#8217;m taking a wee break before tackling the next issue, which is the question of what to do with this book. Do I go through the whole manuscript submission meat-grinder process again, or do I jump straight into publishing it through my own micropress?<br \/>I&#8217;m open to suggestions. Informed ones, that is: Don&#8217;t say &#8220;Have you tried [X]?&#8221; if X is a publishing house &#8212; like Edinburgh&#8217;s Canongate &#8212; who don&#8217;t accept unsolicited manuscripts. Now, if you have a cousin who&#8217;s an agent or a pal who&#8217;s an editor, let me buy you a beer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1079\/fin0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! I just finished my fourth novel, Finitude. It&#8217;s&#8221;&brvbar; hmm, I need to work on my elevator pitch. Okay, how about this?It&#8217;s a lighthearted climate change action story about an insurance salesman at the end of the world.Normally I get all weepy when I finish a book, but with this one I have to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}