{"id":145,"date":"2008-05-30T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=145"},"modified":"2008-05-30T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T18:51:00","slug":"look-into-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Look into the Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, my bud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autumnrain2110.com\/\">Dave Williams<\/a>&#8216; <i>The Mirrored Heavens<\/i> is out, and garnering raves as well it should.  And if you wander over to the appropriate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mirrored-Heavens-David-J-Williams\/dp\/0553385410\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1212172445&amp;sr=1-1\">Amazon page<\/a> and click on the cover art, you&#8217;ll see a blurb dead center of the spread, courtesy of Stephen Baxter.<\/p>\n<p>But once you get your hands on the actual book you&#8217;ll see a whole different quote there, from <i>me<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/mirroredheavens-745701.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/mirroredheavens-745603.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>And I don&#8217;t know if they decided at the last moment they simply liked my blurb better (possible, I suppose), or if they thought my name would sell more books than Stephen Baxter&#8217;s (unlikely, and misguided if true) or if someone screwed up and spliced in the wrong quote just before everything went off to the printers (which, as I can attest from personal experience\u2014 albeit with a different publisher\u2014  has happened before).   Or if Dave just sent me a one-off vanity mock-up to feed my ego and set me up for a fall.  Regardless, I&#8217;m pleased to see my name up there, basking in a little of Dave&#8217;s reflected glory.<\/p>\n<p>Not least because Bantam\/Spectra turned <i>Blindsight<\/i> down flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my bud Dave Williams&#8216; The Mirrored Heavens is out, and garnering raves as well it should. And if you wander over to the appropriate Amazon page and click on the cover art, you&#8217;ll see a blurb dead center of the spread, courtesy of Stephen Baxter. But once you get your hands on the actual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fellow-liars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}