{"id":70,"date":"2018-01-24T22:46:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T22:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=70"},"modified":"2018-01-24T23:10:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T23:10:59","slug":"stolen-things-stephen-parolini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/stolen-things-stephen-parolini\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Things &#8211; Stephen Parolini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full disclosure, I used <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/23\/editor-stephen-parolini-the-novel-doctor\/\">Steve<\/a> as my development editor for my <a href=\"\/DoaCK\/#01\">Contract Killer<\/a> novel.<\/p>\n<p>I was actually depressed for a while after I read it, thinking if he couldn&#8217;t get someone to take on that beautiful gem (he self published), how could I ever find anyone to take on my stories. Eventually, though, I settled on (or grasped upon) the lottery notion of success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stolenthingsnovel.com\/\">Website<\/a> for the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stolen-Things-Stephen-Parolini\/dp\/0991621220\">Amazon<\/a> link; my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/customer-reviews\/R2UOKP1O5LM4WE\/\">review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>When I started reading this book I expected it to be good, but planned on reading it slowly over several days. Unfortunately, despite my efforts, I wasn&#8217;t able to do so and wound up reading it in a single day. Now I&#8217;ll have to reread it several [times] so I can enjoy it longer.<\/p>\n<p>I love the mystery and I particularly love that the mystery isn&#8217;t resolved. Berry is the most engaging 12 year old I&#8217;ve ever spent a few hours with and her imagination was very real to me.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Steve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full disclosure, I used Steve as my development editor for my Contract Killer novel. I was actually depressed for a while after I read it, thinking if he couldn&#8217;t get someone to take on that beautiful gem (he self published), how could I ever find anyone to take on my stories. Eventually, though, I settled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/stolen-things-stephen-parolini\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stolen Things &#8211; Stephen Parolini&#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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}