{"id":6535,"date":"2014-12-23T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2014-12-24T01:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T01:20:54","slug":"the-night-before-the-night-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/the-night-before-the-night-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Before the Night Before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2019Twas the night before the night before Christmas,
\nAnd all through this writer\u2019s head,
\nNot a bad thought was stirring, not even dread.
\nThe writer was thankful, most of all for Alexas,
\nAnd his many readers and fans, from London to Texas.
\nThankful, too, for advance readers Hillary<\/a> and Tony,
\nUpon whom he could always count not to be phony.
\nCover artist Elisabeth Pinio and book designer Lisa DeSpain<\/a>,
\nWorking ever so assiduously even though he\u2019s a pain.
\nAnd of course talented voiceover artist Jill Cassidy<\/a>,
\nWho turned his modest book trailer<\/a> into a mystery rhapsody.
\nHelped this year by pros of the airwaves and the almighty pen,
\nBy radio hosts, reviewers and newspapermen.
\nThe scintillating Pam Stack<\/a> of Authors on the Air,
\nWho conducted her interview with great charm and care.
\nSteve Campbell of The Author Biz<\/a> hosted him brilliantly too,
\nAnd let him discuss his new mystery and his quirky world view.
\nHe talked about his bipolar on Empowered Living Radio,
\nWith host Tori Eldridge<\/a>\u2014master of the microphone and To-Shin Do(e).
\nHe did a Q&A with Authors in the Spotlight\u2019s Lucie Dunn<\/a>,
\nAn interview this writer found gracious, thoughtful and fun.
\nHe was featured in a short documentary by his friend Jason Scott<\/a>,
\nTo whom he is grateful, even though 20 years ago Scott broke his cot.
\nReviewers Kate Goldsmith<\/a>, Nina Sheingold<\/a>, Ann La Farge<\/a>,
\nIn praising One Hundred Miles<\/em> they led the charge.
\nKirkus Reviews<\/a><\/em> favorably compared him to his hero John Cheever,
\nIn a review so stellar, it gave him a fever.
\nIndieReader declared his books Best Books both last year<\/a> and this<\/a>,
\n\u201cThere\u2019s a new word sheriff in town,\u201d they said, \u201cand his name is Chris.\u201d
\nThen Stu Shinske<\/a> and John Barry<\/a> of the PO-kipsee Journal<\/a>
\nWith a long feature made this former reporter feel vernal.
\nThe writer is thankful also for his family and friends;
\nThey are much better than scuba diving and getting the bends. :)
\nAnd so this writer says to everyone, \u201cYou made this year out of sight!
\nNow please excuse me while I sharpen a pencil and sit down and write.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2019Twas the night before the night before Christmas, And all through this writer\u2019s head, Not a bad thought was stirring, not even dread. The writer was thankful, most of all for Alexas, And his many readers and fans, from London to Texas. Thankful, too, for advance readers Hillary and Tony, Upon whom he could always … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,148,30,86,71,6,147,77,78,7,61,70,88,37,11,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-honors","category-book-trailer","category-chris-orcutt-books","category-documentary","category-editors","category-interview","category-multimedia","category-novels","category-one-hundred-miles-from-manhattan","category-personal","category-podcast","category-radio","category-radio-interview","category-reviews","category-dakota-stevens-mysteries-series","category-written-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","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=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}