{"id":21216,"date":"2016-01-29T17:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Achievement-Unlocked-First-professional-sale"},"modified":"2016-01-29T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:17:29","slug":"achievement-unlocked-first-professional-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/01\/29\/achievement-unlocked-first-professional-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievement Unlocked: First professional sale!"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p><strong>Achievement Unlocked:<\/strong> First professional sale!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve known about this for several months, but had to keep quiet about it while the editors decided which stories would be in which anthology. Now I can announce that my SF story currently titled &#8220;One-Eyed Man&#8221; will appear in <em>Futuristica<\/em> Volume 2 in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two and a half years ago, nobody had ever agreed to publish one of my stories. I hadn&#8217;t even <em>written<\/em> more than a couple of stories. A year and a half ago, I made my first semi-professional sale. The rest consisted of basic ability, a little knowledge (increased by study), hard work and persistence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew I could do this. I had got enough rejections of the &#8220;Really close, but no&#8221; type that I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I could cross that line and make a pro sale. But now it&#8217;s actually happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I know I can do it again. <\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Achievement Unlocked: First professional sale!<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/01\/29\/achievement-unlocked-first-professional-sale\/\">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\/21216"}],"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=21216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}