{"id":1257,"date":"2010-05-17T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2010-05-17T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:27:56","slug":"may-i-recommend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"May I recommend&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/The-Boneshaker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1317\" title=\"The Boneshaker by Kate Milford\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/The-Boneshaker-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Boneshaker by Kate Milford\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/The-Boneshaker-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/The-Boneshaker.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0547241879\/ref=s9_simv_bw_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-4&amp;pf_rd_r=0J5FV8MVDD85CAZW1DQC&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=41171042&amp;pf_rd_i=283155\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Boneshaker<\/span><\/a><\/em>, by Kate Milford.\u00a0 Kate is a friend of mine.\u00a0 We met a few years ago on the SCBWI discussion boards in a post that involved steampunk.\u00a0 Since then, we&#8217;ve exchanged critiques on a few manuscripts and so I&#8217;ve enjoyed her work for a while.\u00a0 We met in person on my recent trip to NYC, and had a very nice time.\u00a0 Kate is a person blessed, or perhaps lucky, or perhaps cursed to have both a fertile imagination, and the apparently boundless energy to express it.\u00a0 (I sometimes wonder if she made her own deal at the crossroads &#8211; read <em>The Boneshaker<\/em>, you&#8217;ll see what I mean.)\u00a0 In addition to all the normal social networking things, she runs her own website at the <a href=\"http:\/\/clockworkfoundry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Clockwork Foundry<\/span><\/a>, and also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nagspeake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tourism site for a city<\/span><\/a> that may or may not exist.<\/p>\n<p>I had planned to write my own review of <em>The Boneshaker<\/em>, but Elizabeth Bird has done a better job than I could at her Fuse #8 blog.\u00a0 I encourage you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/blog\/1790000379\/post\/1820054182.html?nid=3713\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">go read it<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Then, obtain a copy of <em>The Boneshaker<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/boneshaker_email_smll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1316\" title=\"Coming Soon!\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/boneshaker_email_smll.jpg\" alt=\"Coming Soon!\" width=\"550\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/boneshaker_email_smll.jpg 550w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/boneshaker_email_smll-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boneshaker, by Kate Milford.\u00a0 Kate is a friend of mine.\u00a0 We met a few years ago on the SCBWI discussion boards in a post that involved steampunk.\u00a0 Since then, we&#8217;ve exchanged critiques on a few manuscripts and so I&#8217;ve enjoyed her work for a while.\u00a0 We met in person on my recent trip to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-kh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","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=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}