{"id":21053,"date":"2017-05-13T20:28:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T20:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/This-was-my-first-semiprofessional-sale-but-the-anthology-I-sold-it-to-is-no-longer-available-so-I-thought-Id-put"},"modified":"2017-05-13T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T20:28:40","slug":"this-was-my-first-semiprofessional-sale-but-the-anthology-i-sold-it-to-is-no-longer-available-so-i-thought-id-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/05\/13\/this-was-my-first-semiprofessional-sale-but-the-anthology-i-sold-it-to-is-no-longer-available-so-i-thought-id-put\/","title":{"rendered":"This was my first semiprofessional sale, but the anthology I sold it to is no longer available, so I thought I&#8217;d put&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>This was my first semiprofessional sale, but the anthology I sold it to is no longer available, so I thought I&#8217;d put it up on my website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a mashup of Damon Runyon; detective noir; and sword and sorcery, three odd tastes that go oddly together. What originally sparked it off was reading (or partly reading, because I got bored and didn&#8217;t finish) a book about a dwarf noir detective that lacked the compelling voice of noir and instead plodded along in the manner of poorly-written epic fantasy. I thought, &#8220;I can do better than that!&#8221; and&#8230; well, this is the result. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve since read Ari Marmell&#8217;s\u00a0much better noir fae detective books. This story probably wouldn&#8217;t have existed if I&#8217;d read them first, because he does it right.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/shortstories\/axe-stone-dwarf-detective\/\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/shortstories\/axe-stone-dwarf-detective\/<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        This was my first semiprofessional sale, but the anthology I sold it to is no longer available, so I thought I&#8217;d put&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/05\/13\/this-was-my-first-semiprofessional-sale-but-the-anthology-i-sold-it-to-is-no-longer-available-so-i-thought-id-put\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[153],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}