{"id":2785,"date":"2016-02-10T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/When-I-review-books-the-ones-that-earn-five-stars-have-both-fresh-interesting-ideas-and-excellent-execution"},"modified":"2016-02-10T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:30:52","slug":"when-i-review-books-the-ones-that-earn-five-stars-have-both-fresh-interesting-ideas-and-excellent-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/02\/10\/when-i-review-books-the-ones-that-earn-five-stars-have-both-fresh-interesting-ideas-and-excellent-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"When I review books, the ones that earn five stars have both fresh, interesting ideas and excellent execution."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I review books, the ones that earn five stars have both <em>fresh, interesting ideas<\/em> and <em>excellent execution<\/em>. One or the other gets four stars, unless the weaker one is especially weak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is basically what Rachel Aaron is talking about, from a writer&#8217;s perspective, in this post, using the metaphor of the Great British Bakeoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Rachel Aaron<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Writing Wednesday: Flavor vs. Bake<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First up, if you&#8217;re at all interested in the self publishing business, go and check out the latest Author Earnings Report . It&#8217;s one of their better ones and paints an amazing picture of the current Amazon book market (which is pretty much the #1 most impor&#8230;<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        When I review books, the ones that earn five stars have both fresh, interesting ideas and excellent execution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-resources-and-craft","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}