{"id":472,"date":"2018-12-04T23:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/?p=472"},"modified":"2021-11-25T19:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T02:11:30","slug":"a-night-of-rain-finished-and-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"A Night of Rain finished &#8211; And An Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to apologize to my readers. I had the full intention of getting to work on &#8220;The Emperor&#8217;s Wolf&#8221; sequel directly after I finished &#8220;A Blessing of Rain&#8221;, but that has not happened. Instead I couldn&#8217;t stop writing the second book in the Rain series, something I have never done before. I don&#8217;t do sequels directly after a book is released. I usually need some time to get back to the story after having dealt with edits and just the process of getting a book finished.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, the Rain series is gripping me and not letting me go.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished the second book. I literally wore myself into the ground to finish it in nineteen days. That&#8217;s ridiculous, just so you know. : P<\/p>\n<p>Now I have already started the third installment.<\/p>\n<p>I am beginning to think I am possessed. OK, more than normal. Whatever it is, it&#8217;s not letting go.<\/p>\n<p>So all I can promise is that I will get to &#8220;The Emperor&#8217;s Wolf&#8221; sequel as soon as this craziness lets me go. If I survive. I think I have turned into the quintessential hunchback scribe of medieval times. I might never walk properly again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to apologize to my readers. I had the full intention of getting to work on &#8220;The Emperor&#8217;s Wolf&#8221; sequel directly after I finished &#8220;A Blessing of Rain&#8221;, but that has not happened. Instead I couldn&#8217;t stop writing the second book in the Rain series, something I have never done before. I don&#8217;t do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-j-c"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcowensauthor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}