{"id":345,"date":"2012-05-23T00:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=345"},"modified":"2012-05-23T00:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T05:50:21","slug":"the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/the-home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Home Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief note about <strong><em>Malmaxa II \u2013 The Pilgrimage<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I\u2019m pleased to say that I\u2019m in the final leg of the race to release the second book in my series.\u00a0 Well, perhaps less of a race and more of a marathon\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>The Pilgrimage<\/em> was essentially complete when I released <em>Beltamar\u2019s War<\/em>, or so I thought.\u00a0 After all it was initially part of the original draft.\u00a0 On the advice of a literary agent, <a href=\"http:\/\/linnprentisliterary.blogspot.com\/\">Amy Hayden of Linn Prentis Literary<\/a>, who declined to represent me yet managed to inspire me with her rejection, I split the first draft into two novels.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad I did as it allowed me to focus on cleaning up the first part of the tale \u2013 I am quite happy with Beltamar\u2019s War in its current form.<\/p>\n<p>I started working on <em>The Pilgrimage<\/em> in earnest almost a year ago.\u00a0 I thought I\u2019d be done with it in a \u201cfew months\u201d.\u00a0 Was I wrong, or what?\u00a0 Well, that \u201cfew months\u201d turned into about a year.\u00a0 Hopefully it will be time well spent, and I\u2019m looking forward to readers\u2019 comments.<\/p>\n<p>I have just finished working on the artwork for the cover, and I\u2019m doing my last pass through the text now.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ll release it to Kindle and other eBook formats before the end of the weekend.\u00a0 But\u2026 I have been known to be wrong before, so watch this space for news.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0preview of the cover appears below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/2012\/05\/the-home-stretch\/mal2-for-ebook-600x800-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-349\" title=\"Proposed Cover for Malmaxa II - The Pilgrimage.\" src=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mal2-for-ebook-600x8001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selene, shortly before she receives her sixth marks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief note about Malmaxa II \u2013 The Pilgrimage.\u00a0 I\u2019m pleased to say that I\u2019m in the final leg of the race to release the second book in my series.\u00a0 Well, perhaps less of a race and more of a marathon\u2026 The Pilgrimage was essentially complete when I released Beltamar\u2019s War, or so I thought.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[245,370],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-malmaxa-ii","tag-selene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}