{"id":1769,"date":"2010-12-24T00:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T06:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2010-12-24T00:20:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T06:20:24","slug":"publishers-weekly-flying-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"Publishers Weekly Flying Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really excited to announce that Publishers Weekly has chosen me as a Fall 2010 Flying Start for <em>The Clockwork Three<\/em>!\u00a0 I&#8217;m thrilled and honored.<\/p>\n<p>From Publishers Weekly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our semi-annual Flying Starts feature highlights first-time children&#8217;s  book creators with noteworthy debuts over the season just past. Our fall  picks: Adam Gidwitz, whose <em>A Tale Dark and Grimm<\/em> inventively combines retold tales with new material, with Hansel and Gretel in starring roles; Kiersten White, whose novel <em>Paranormalcy<\/em> tells of a teenager who bears the responsibility of keeping paranormal  beings under control, but longs for a \u201cnormal\u201d life; Matthew Kirby,  author of <em>The Clockwork Three<\/em>, a middle-grade historical fantasy set in the 19th century that mixes fantasy and steampunk elements; and Sarah Dooley, whose <em>Livvie Owen Lived Here<\/em> paints a memorable portrait of the interior world of an autistic girl.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to read interviews with myself and the other Flying Starts, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/childrens\/childrens-authors\/article\/45564-fall-2010-flying-starts.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the other three authors, and thanks to the editors of Publishers Weekly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really excited to announce that Publishers Weekly has chosen me as a Fall 2010 Flying Start for The Clockwork Three!\u00a0 I&#8217;m thrilled and honored.<br \/>\nFrom Publishers Weekly:<br \/>\nOur semi-annual Flying Starts feature highlights first-time children&#8217;s  book creators with noteworthy debuts over the season just past. Our fall  picks: Adam Gidwitz, whose A Tale Dark [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","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-sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}