{"id":13636,"date":"2015-09-26T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/?p=13636"},"modified":"2015-09-26T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T16:38:25","slug":"asking-readers-to-help-spread-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2015\/09\/asking-readers-to-help-spread-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking Readers to Help Spread the Word!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:1em;\"><em>We live in a strange new era during which authors are being required to &#8216;market&#8217; their own work &#8230; though no one actually WANTS authors to market to them, and every book venue expressly forbids it. This market-driven change not a good thing, but there is no choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/readers-help-spread-the-word\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bridgestone-display-case-300x247.png\" alt=\"Mrs. Bridgestone&#039;s Display Case with wooden plaque of Pegasos coin\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bridgestone-display-case-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bridgestone-display-case.png 486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/readers-help-spread-the-word\/\"><strong>Help from readers is most important now<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; I made a special page for readers willing to help spread the word by leaving a review comment or rating the work online.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a moment and would like to help share the trilogy, please consider offering your thoughts for others. <\/p>\n<p>It is very important to the success of the trilogy &#8230; <em><strong>Thank You!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;height:2em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a strange new era during which authors are being required to &#8216;market&#8217; their own work &#8230; though no one actually WANTS authors to market to them, and every book venue expressly forbids it. This market-driven change not a good thing, but there is no choice. Help from readers is most important now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2015\/09\/asking-readers-to-help-spread-the-word\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asking Readers to Help Spread the Word!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140,59],"tags":[405,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}