{"id":2159,"date":"2019-04-11T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T01:06:26","slug":"fueling-up-for-the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/fueling-up-for-the-next-big-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fueling Up for the next big thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, my whelm has been a bit over. \u00a0In the past two weeks, I&#8217;ve launched one book, sent in the copyedits for another, and finished the draft of yet another. \u00a0And now I&#8217;m starting the process of drafting what&#8217;s going to be a Big One&#8211;\u00a0<em><strong>PEOPLE OF THE CITY<\/strong><\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>which is technically a\u00a0<em>Maradaine Elite\u00a0<\/em>novel (i.e., starring Dayne and Jerinne), but in practice, this is the first Big Crossover. \u00a0And it&#8217;s a LOT.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D3lAI8zXkAAcpCU.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m in that less-sexy, more data-driven part of things of making sure I have timelines and terms squared away, knowing I&#8217;ve got all the who&#8217;s and what&#8217;s and where&#8217;s and when&#8217;s locked down.<\/p>\n<p>This stuff requires fuel.<\/p>\n<p>My big go-tos right now tend to be coffee in the morning and herbal teas in the afternoon and evening. \u00a0Add in apples, peanuts and granola, and I&#8217;m good to go.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll need to be. \u00a0There&#8217;s still a lot of work ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, my whelm has been a bit over. \u00a0In the past two weeks, I&#8217;ve launched one book, sent in the copyedits for another, and finished the draft of yet another. [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}