{"id":6219,"date":"2014-12-01T02:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T02:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2014-12-20T00:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T00:42:30","slug":"the-next-dakota-stevens-mystery-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/the-next-dakota-stevens-mystery-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Dakota Stevens Mystery is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you only knew what a hellish year this has been, and what a *miracle* it is that I finished this novel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IT’S DONE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After 90,000 words, 6 drafts, endless polishing, and countless tweaks, spell-checks and fact-checks, the next Dakota Stevens mystery, A Truth Stranger Than Fiction<\/em><\/strong>, is finished.<\/p>\n

The novel will be available for pre-order by December 22<\/strong>, and will be released on January 1 or 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The reason for the January release is so I can get a full year (2015) with the book as a new release\u2014for marketing and publicity purposes. This was the publicity company’s advice, and I am\u00a0going to follow it.<\/p>\n

Besides, as one reader (a self-described fangirl) pointed out to me, it’s good that it won’t be available during Christmas because you probably wouldn’t get anything done until you finished it.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’m prejudiced, but I think this might be the best Dakota novel of the three. But I’ll let you be the judge. In January.<\/p>\n

This will be my last update about the book until it’s up for pre-order on Amazon. At that time, I’ll have a blurb about the book. There might even be a book trailer.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your loyal support and encouragement.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IT’S DONE. After 90,000 words, 6 drafts, endless polishing, and countless tweaks, spell-checks and fact-checks, the next Dakota Stevens mystery, A Truth Stranger Than Fiction, is finished. The novel will be available for pre-order by December 22, and will be released on January 1 or 2. The reason for the January release is so I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,30,3,68,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-truth-stranger-than-fiction","category-chris-orcutt-books","category-craft","category-rewriting","category-dakota-stevens-mysteries-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}