{"id":57,"date":"2007-09-14T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-09-14T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T00:51:00","slug":"done-deals-fair-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Done Deals &amp; Fair Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/BSTrade-743328.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/BSTrade-743324.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>So, two more sets of negotiations concluded, two more contracts signed and sent:  Arabesque (a new imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ast.ru\/\">AST Publishing<\/a>) is now officially putting out a Russian edition of <i>Blindsight<\/i>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/%20http:\/\/www.bibliopolis.org\/index.htm\">Bibliopolis<\/a> is tasked with the Spanish translation.<\/p>\n<p>Both have promised me input on cover layout.<\/p>\n<p>Ominously, the editor at Arabesque \u2014 after having seen the author photos I sent him \u2014 mused tentatively about using one of them as an actual cover-art element.  Not sure how that would work.  I suppose my nose could stand in for Big Ben, if the light was right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The crawl might be going down briefly over the next couple of days.  Apparently, by keeping all its files at rifters.com, I&#8217;m depriving us all of cool things like Polls (which would allow me to learn how many of you really do think that this tiny white-on-black motif blows goats and would rather that I went with yellow on chartreuse).  I think I can move everything back to the Google server while still retaining the appearance of a rifters.com URL \u2014 if I can&#8217;t, fuck it, it&#8217;s staying put \u2014  but who knows what&#8217;s gonna happen?  So if your bookmarks suddenly take you to 404via, wait a bit.  If they <i>still<\/i> don&#8217;t work, go to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/updates.htm\">Updates<\/a> page;  any new architecture will be reported there.<\/p>\n<p>See you on the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, two more sets of negotiations concluded, two more contracts signed and sent: Arabesque (a new imprint of AST Publishing) is now officially putting out a Russian edition of Blindsight, and Bibliopolis is tasked with the Spanish translation. Both have promised me input on cover layout. Ominously, the editor at Arabesque \u2014 after having seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blindsight","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}