{"id":3454,"date":"2012-12-11T16:42:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2012-12-11T16:42:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T23:42:25","slug":"a-couple-of-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=3454","title":{"rendered":"A couple of announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to let you all know that I will have a second fiction series beginning in 2014! From\u00a0<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donna Bray at HarperCollins&#8217;s Balzer + Bray imprint has acquired a three-book middle grade SF trilogy, Infinite Winter, by Edgar and PEN Award-winner <strong>Matthew J. Kirby<\/strong>. In his new project, the daughter of a climate scientist tries to unlock the secrets of a new Ice Age. The series will debut in fall 2014; Stephen Fraser at the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency sold world rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a bit early to go into more detail, but I can tell you that it involves aliens, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to this project.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________<\/p>\n<p>This second announcement is not nearly so exciting. But you may have noticed a new Twitter feed in the sidebar. Because I&#8217;m now on Twitter! Come follow me! @writerMattKirby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to let you all know that I will have a second fiction series beginning in 2014! From\u00a0Publishers Weekly:<br \/>\nDonna Bray at HarperCollins&#8217;s Balzer + Bray imprint has acquired a three-book middle grade SF trilogy, Infinite Winter, by Edgar and PEN Award-winner Matthew J. Kirby. In his new project, the daughter of a climate [&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-TI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","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=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}