{"id":349,"date":"2012-08-07T22:33:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2012-08-07T22:33:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:33:40","slug":"im-back-progress-on-the-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Back; Progress on the Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the long hiatus from blogging.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been tied up house-hunting, house buying, packing, moving, unpacking, and all the related work of getting set up in a new home.\u00a0 I\u2019ll do my best to be a more faithful blogger in the future.<\/p>\n<p>People keep asking me how the sequel to <em>The Blizzard<\/em> is coming.\u00a0 Even though I haven\u2019t been blogging, I <em>have<\/em> tried to keep up on writing.\u00a0 I have over 97,000 words down so far and like to imagine the book is at least half finished.\u00a0 (This one will be a full-size adult novel\u00a0 &#8212; the hero and heroine aren\u2019t YA anymore!)\u00a0 For those who missed earlier tidbits, the story picks up with Chet and Melanie still together four years later, and months from finishing college.\u00a0 But we all know how rarely high school romances last, right?\u00a0 Will theirs be different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the long hiatus from blogging.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been tied up house-hunting, house buying, packing, moving, unpacking, and all the related work of getting set up in a new home.\u00a0 I\u2019ll do my best to be a more faithful blogger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/?p=349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-literary-characters","category-writing","category-writing-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martymartins.com\/martysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}