{"id":186,"date":"2006-09-12T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/09\/12\/186\/"},"modified":"2006-09-12T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T20:22:00","slug":"186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/09\/12\/186\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sold a science fiction short story yesterday to the Amazon.com Amazon Shorts program.  It&#8217;s entitled <em>Moon Over Aiyalon<\/em>.  Ray Bradbury read it many years ago and wrote me a nice letter telling me he liked it; however, in the years since I had written it, I had been unsuccessful in finding any publishers that agreed with Mr. Bradbury&#8217;s assessment.  Until now.  In a few weeks the story will appear on Amazon.com, where anyone will be able to download it for only 49 cents.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a humorous story told in first person about an Israeli sideways time machine that proves unusually useful in countering terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Given the subject of the short story, it&#8217;s ironic that the email from Amazon came on the fifth anniversary of 911.<\/p>\n<p>The contract and author questionnaire that Amazon sent me is almost longer than the story; I&#8217;m still trying to fill it all out.  On the bright side, they&#8217;ll be promoting the story and conducting an advertizing campaign for it, and they will link it with my novel, so the two should drive sales for each other.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sold a science fiction short story yesterday to the Amazon.com Amazon Shorts program. It&#8217;s entitled Moon Over Aiyalon. Ray Bradbury read it many years ago and wrote me a nice letter telling me he liked it; however, in the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/09\/12\/186\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}