{"id":3871,"date":"2013-06-22T21:21:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T21:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?page_id=3871"},"modified":"2014-07-06T22:33:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T22:33:01","slug":"novels-and-short-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/novels-and-short-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Novels and Short Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5150\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Anton_Chekhov_with_bow-tie_sepia_image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5150  \" src=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Anton_Chekhov_with_bow-tie_sepia_image-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anton Chekhov, arguably the greatest short story writer ever.\" width=\"169\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Anton_Chekhov_with_bow-tie_sepia_image-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Anton_Chekhov_with_bow-tie_sepia_image.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton Chekhov, arguably the greatest short story writer ever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Published in April\u00a02014:\u00a0<strong><em>One Hundred Miles from Manhattan<\/em><\/strong>, a modern novel about a fictional wealthy community in\u00a0Upstate New York\u2014Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2013, my short story collection,\u00a0<strong><em>The Man, The Myth, The Legend<\/em><\/strong>, was published, and in December 2013 it was voted one of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indiereader.com\/2013\/12\/irs-best-indie-books-for-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best Indie Books of 2013<\/a>\u00a0by IndieReader.<\/p>\n<p>Several of my short stories have appeared in literary journals including\u00a0<em>Potomac Review, The Griffin, Timber Creek Review, Snake Nation Review, The MOTA 3: Courage Anthology,<\/em>\u00a0and the 2003<em>\u00a0Dan River Anthology.<\/em>\u00a0Published stories include \u201cThe Bootlegger,\u201d \u201cWhose Van is That On Fire Out There,\u201d \u201cDescent,\u201d \u201cSecurity Guard,\u201d \u201cAll the Young Fellas Are Linin\u2019 Up\u201d and many more.<\/p>\n<p>My short fiction has also won some modest awards, including\u00a0the\u00a0<em>55 Fiction<\/em>\u00a0World\u2019s Shortest Stories competition and the MOTA 3 Emerging Writers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in April\u00a02014:\u00a0One Hundred Miles from Manhattan, a modern novel about a fictional wealthy community in\u00a0Upstate New York\u2014Wellington. In July 2013, my short story collection,\u00a0The Man, The Myth, The Legend, was published, and in December 2013 it was voted one of the\u00a0Best Indie Books of 2013\u00a0by IndieReader. Several of my short stories have appeared in &#8230; <a title=\"Novels and Short Fiction\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/novels-and-short-fiction\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Novels and Short Fiction\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3871","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6067,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3871\/revisions\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}