{"id":5008,"date":"2009-12-23T13:16:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:06:12","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. Make a concerted effort to contact the authors of books I enjoy and tell them that, and why. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">I only know how wonderful it makes me feel when someone took the time to email me and tell me that they enjoyed one or both of my books and why.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine any other author wouldn\u2019t like it as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Seek out and read more independently published work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">I think I have a skewed view of self-publishing, since I came to this via really good writers who decided to self-publish.\u00a0 Thus, I\u2019ve never encountered this mythical slush pile of dreck I keep hearing about. Maybe I\u2019ll find some, and maybe I\u2019ll let you know if I do. Or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Make a concerted effort to contact the authors of books I enjoy and tell them that, and why. I only know how wonderful it makes me feel when someone took the time to email me and tell me that they enjoyed one or both of my books and why.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine any other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[567,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craftsmanship","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16778,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/16778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}