{"id":1032,"date":"2010-01-25T11:36:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:36:18","slug":"release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I found out the official release date of <em>The Clockwork Three<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I can now mark my calendar for <strong>October 1, 2010<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 And oh-my-goodness, that&#8217;s this year.\u00a0 I can measure the distance from here to there in <em>months<\/em>.\u00a0 I still can&#8217;t quite believe that this is all happening.<\/p>\n<p>But something else happened last week to make it feel a lot more real.\u00a0 I received a batch of ARCs.\u00a0 My editor got some on Thursday and overnighted a box to me, which was very thoughtful and awesome of her.\u00a0 The publicity department at Scholastic feels that it&#8217;s too early to send them out into the wide, wide world, so I can&#8217;t show them to you just yet.\u00a0 But they look amazing.\u00a0 It was quite the moment when I picked one up and held it, my story an actual book.\u00a0 I think I might have even jumped up and down.<\/p>\n<p>I also found out a little more about the marketing plan they&#8217;ve put together and I am so grateful and excited.\u00a0 Scholastic is really supporting the book.\u00a0 When I can share more of those details, I will.\u00a0 In the meantime, feel free to mark October 1st on your calendars, if you feel so inclined.\u00a0 I sure did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I found out the official release date of The Clockwork Three.<br \/>\nI can now mark my calendar for October 1, 2010.\u00a0\u00a0 And oh-my-goodness, that&#8217;s this year.\u00a0 I can measure the distance from here to there in months.\u00a0 I still can&#8217;t quite believe that this is all happening.<br \/>\nBut something else happened last week to make [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-the-clockwork-three","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-gE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}