{"id":1610,"date":"2009-03-23T00:04:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T06:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2009-03-23T00:04:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T06:04:38","slug":"in-which-she-earnestly-and-vaguely-rants-to-avoid-spoilers-ahem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1610","title":{"rendered":"In which she earnestly and vaguely rants (to avoid spoilers, ahem)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Publishing companies: it’s all very well and good that you’re targeting certain readerships for upcoming thrillers. But when you throw the title of a book (or novella, or short story) out there that’s got a major twist at the end, and say “If you’re a fan of X book, you’ll like this one!” and then tie it to reviews that talk about the major twist at the end… well, could you have possibly given away the major huge thrilling twist at the end of your soon-to-be-released thriller<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Just a thought.<\/p>\n

In possibly-related news, many of us<\/a> have turned into gibbering, twitching masses trying to figure out where the crazy tapes<\/a> lead. If you’re coming to this blog because you’ve received a mysterious tape recorder that wants you to play it, won’t you please leave a comment here saying what your story was about, what number was on the tape, and what it was wrapped in? <\/p>\n

And if you’re intrigued, please do join us for conversation on Unfiction<\/a> and check out Rowan’s guide<\/a> which is a great way to catch up with what’s happened so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Publishing companies: it’s all very well and good that you’re targeting certain readerships for upcoming thrillers. But when you throw the title of a book (or novella, or short story) out there that’s got a major twist at the end, and say “If you’re a fan of X book, you’ll like this one!” and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}