{"id":107,"date":"2008-06-24T07:29:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-06-24T10:20:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T16:20:56","slug":"new-short-story-in-aoifes-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"New Short Story in Aoife&#8217;s Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short story I wrote many, many years ago has finally seen print this month! &#8220;Betrayal&#8221; was the audition story I wrote for Orson Scott Card&#8217;s Boot Camp in 2003.  Since Boot Camp was such an awesome experience for me, this story has some sentimental value for me and I am thrilled to finally see it in print.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning authors, take note: Perseverance pays off. At least half a dozen magazines returned this story to me with a note saying, &#8220;Very good, but not for us.&#8221; I took them at their word and kept on trying until I figured out who it was for.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Betrayal,&#8221; a college freshman discovers that her roommate is an alien and vows to keep that secret &#8212; at least until aliens attack Earth.<\/p>\n<p>You can purchase a copy of the magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genremall.com\/zinesr.htm#aoife\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short story I wrote many, many years ago has finally seen print this month! &#8220;Betrayal&#8221; was the audition story I wrote for Orson Scott Card&#8217;s Boot Camp in 2003. Since Boot Camp was such an awesome experience for me, this story has some sentimental value for me and I am thrilled to finally see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chitchat","category-tips-for-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}