{"id":3534,"date":"2013-02-11T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2013-02-11T15:32:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:32:01","slug":"infinity-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=3534","title":{"rendered":"Infinity Ring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iRing_logo_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2949\" alt=\"Infinity Ring\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iRing_logo_web.jpg\" width=\"682\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iRing_logo_web.jpg 682w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iRing_logo_web-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, everyone! I&#8217;m relieved and excited to say that I have finished my installment in the <em>Infinity Ring<\/em> series, which is book #5, and will be out this fall. This series has been so fun to work on. Books 1 and 2, by James Dashner and Carrie Ryan, have both been bestsellers, and I&#8217;m so thrilled for them. They really got the story off with a bang. A couple more things I&#8217;m excited about:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IRcover3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3264\" alt=\"INFINITY RING BOOK 3\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IRcover3.jpg\" width=\"434\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IRcover3.jpg 1616w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IRcover3-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IRcover3-722x1024.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lisa McMann&#8217;s book 3,\u00a0<em>The Trap Door<\/em>, just came out last week, and I hope everyone goes out to pick up a copy. If you want a taste,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityring.com\/books\/the-trap-door\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a> to read an excerpt.<\/p>\n<p>The online game that accompanies it involves Samurai and Ninjas, or in other words, it&#8217;s made of<em> awesome<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityring.com\/games\/episode3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click here<\/span><\/a> to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the <em>Infinity Ring<\/em> message boards are now live, so <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityring.com\/forums\/\">click here<\/a><\/span> to visit them, and if you&#8217;ve read the books, be sure to leave a comment. The folks at Scholastic are really excited to hear from fans.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all the news for now. (Except, I&#8217;ve read Matt de la\u00a0Pe\u00f1a&#8217;s book 4, and it&#8217;s amazing!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, everyone! I&#8217;m relieved and excited to say that I have finished my installment in the Infinity Ring series, which is book #5, and will be out this fall. This series has been so fun to work on. Books 1 and 2, by James Dashner and Carrie Ryan, have both been bestsellers, and I&#8217;m so [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-infinity-ring","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-V0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}