{"id":3551,"date":"2012-08-20T13:59:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2012-08-23T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:27:04","slug":"hidden-things-release-week-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/hidden-things-release-week-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Things Release Week News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <em><strong>Hidden Things<\/strong><\/em> officially releases tomorrow &#8212; I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of messages from people telling me that they&#8217;ve gotten notification their preorders are on the way, which is both very scary and very exciting. There have been quite a few reviews posted already (more on that in another post), but obviously that doesn&#8217;t compare to the number of people about to put their eyeballs on the story &#8212; I really have no idea what the end result of all that is going to be, so I&#8217;m going to focus on what&#8217;s going on right now.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>&#8220;Right Now&#8221; Means&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This week is going to be kind of crazy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today<\/strong>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.antonstrout.com\/2012\/08\/19\/of-podcast-ep-43--doyce-testerman.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Once and Future Podcast has a new podcast up, and it&#8217;s me<\/a>, talking about Hidden Things! Well, it&#8217;s me and Anton Stout, and we&#8217;re talking about <em>Hidden Things<\/em>, <em>Adrift<\/em>, writing, City of Heroes, Tolkein, <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>, <em>The<\/em> <em>Silmarillion<\/em>, MMOs, fan fiction, lego, Skylanders, tabletop gaming, dice obsessions, \u00a0and pretty much every other nerdy thing you can pack into an hour and ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday<\/strong>, I will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/event\/presentation-booksigning-doyce-testerman-hidden-things\" target=\"_blank\">reading and talking and signing books at the Tattered Cover<\/a>, a great Colorado indie bookstore. This will be my first public reading, ever, which means I will probably screw it up in some kind of hilarious fashion, and you should totally stop by to point and laugh and post pictures on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/to-the-front-page.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3552\" title=\"to the front page\" src=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/to-the-front-page.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/to-the-front-page.gif 720w, http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/to-the-front-page-300x200.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thursday<\/strong>, I will be doing an AMA, or &#8220;Ask Me Anything&#8221; session on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Fantasy\/comments\/yjpsg\/fyi_debut_author_doyce_testerman_will_join\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit&#8217;s r\/Fantasy<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0organized by the fine moderators of that subreddit. I will have more about this as we get closer to go-time, but as a pretty rabid redditor I have to say that I&#8217;m incredibly geeked-out and excited about this, and I sincerely hope THE ENTIRE INTERNET shows up to ask me questions about&#8230; you know&#8230; whatever. I mean, it&#8217;s supposed to be about writing, and Hidden Things and probably NaNoWriMo and gaming stuff but&#8230; whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday will also see me drop by for an interview with Chuck Wendig on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\" target=\"_blank\">terribleminds.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(direct link when it goes up), which will include a short story that I&#8217;ll be hosting here. Also, I&#8217;ll be countering his baseless slander and accusations with an interview of my own, with Chuck, posted up here on the same day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong>, I&#8217;ll be doing a reading\/signing up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/kunc\/events.eventsmain?action=showEvent&amp;eventID=1264807\" target=\"_blank\">Old Firehouse Books in Fort Collins<\/a>, another great indie bookseller. I&#8217;m excited about this one as well, especially since I really have no idea what to expect from this event, in terms of visitors and audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next week<\/strong>, I&#8217;ll also be over at the Qwillery as part of their <a href=\"http:\/\/qwillery.blogspot.com\/p\/2012-dac.html\" target=\"_blank\">2012 Debut Author Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The object of the 2012 Debut Author Challenge is for participants to read at least 12 debut novels during 2012 &#8211; one from each month of the year though you may read them anytime between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>(Last week, Hidden Things won the Qwillery&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/qwillery.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/2012-debut-author-challenge-cover-wars.html\" target=\"_blank\">2012 Debut Author Challenge August &#8220;Cover Wars&#8221;<\/a>, which I&#8217;m really happy about even though I had nothing to do with it &#8212; it&#8217;s just cool that other people liked it as much as I do.)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now &#8212; I&#8217;m still trying to sort out September events coming up, but stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Hidden Things officially releases tomorrow &#8212; I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of messages from people telling me that they&#8217;ve gotten notification their preorders are on the way, which is both very scary and very exciting. There have been quite a few reviews posted already (more on that in another post), but obviously that doesn&#8217;t compare &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/hidden-things-release-week-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hidden Things Release Week News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,42],"tags":[638],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-writing","tag-hidden-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}