{"id":42156,"date":"2012-04-19T21:39:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/04\/19\/want-to-star-in-my-novel\/"},"modified":"2012-04-19T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:39:18","slug":"want-to-star-in-my-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/04\/19\/want-to-star-in-my-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to star in my novel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just four days to go. get your entries in!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash;-<\/p>\n<p>as I launch into the final phase of preparation for my novel &#8211; I\u2019m about to write the final draft of the outline, eek!! &#8211; I want to start ramping up my promotion of my baby! \u00a0<em>A God Grown Old\u00a0<\/em>is going to be AWESOME\u2026 and this is your chance to be a part of it. a\u00a0<strong>real<\/strong>\u00a0part of it.<\/p>\n<p>so yes, this is\u00a0a\u00a0<strong>giveaway for a guest appearance in my novel<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still in planning mode, so I\u2019m not giving away too much about the book itself, but here are a few tidbits that should give you a feel for what I\u2019m going to be writing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it\u2019s set in the Middle East and North Africa, around 200 AD.<\/li>\n<li>it\u2019s a re-telling of a famous myth, but from an unusual point of view.<\/li>\n<li>the main character is a dragon, and the four primary secondary characters (shhhh, it makes sense) are two humans, an Egyptian wolf, and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karkadann\">karkadann<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>your character could be just about any animal, creature, or human that would exist in this kind of story-world (remember, this is a myth, so traditional African mythical creatures are welcome as well). you can choose to include an OC you haven\u2019t written into something, or you can have yourself wandering through the wilds of Libya. I am happy to take any name and set of characteristics so long as I can find a creative way to work him, her, or it in to the story.<\/p>\n<p>want to enter? rules rules rules!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>you must be following me.\u00a0<\/strong>I know, I know, but I don\u2019t post more than two or three times a day max, so I won\u2019t be flooding your dash. plus, if the book sounds like something you\u2019d like to read, you may want to stay informed anyway!<\/li>\n<li><strong>you may reblog twice and like once<\/strong>. each will be considered an entry, for up to three entries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>you may follow me on Twitter (AGodGrownOld) for one entry.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>I will be choosing the winner randomly on Monday, April 23rd, and contacting them by the next day<\/strong>. so basically you have ten days from the start of the contest to get your entries in!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that\u2019s everything! if you want some more details about\u00a0<em>A God Grown Old<\/em>, I am happy to answer some specific questions via my ask, but I\u2019m kind of keeping it under wraps to some extent until I\u2019m a little further along.<\/p>\n<p>thanks for reading, following, reblogging, or snorting with derision! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just four days to go. get your entries in! &mdash;- as I launch into the final phase of preparation for my novel &#8211; I\u2019m about to write the final draft of the outline, eek!! &#8211; I want to start ramping up my promotion of my baby! \u00a0A God Grown Old\u00a0is going to be AWESOME\u2026 and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/04\/19\/want-to-star-in-my-novel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Want to star in my novel?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7957,11556,9029,11772,999,1584,11775,8776,11],"class_list":["post-42156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-god-grown-old","tag-aggo","tag-author","tag-contest","tag-giveaway","tag-novel","tag-prize","tag-win","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}