{"id":377,"date":"2015-10-07T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T08:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/squidtastic-steampunkery-free-fiction-this-thursday-steampunk-kindle-scifi\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T08:18:10","slug":"squidtastic-steampunkery-free-fiction-this-thursday-steampunk-kindle-scifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2015\/10\/squidtastic-steampunkery-free-fiction-this-thursday-steampunk-kindle-scifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Squidtastic Steampunkery: Free Fiction this Thursday! #steampunk #kindle #scifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><B>ATTENTION<\/B>: My steampunk short &#8220;The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond&#8221; will be free for Kindle tomorrow and Friday.  Here&#8217;s the official link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Q7iPcU\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Q7iPcU<\/a><br \/>\nPlease do me a solid and help spread the love far and wide; thanks!  If you read the story, please hit it with a review&#8211;even if you don&#8217;t like it.  Bad reviews help readers just as much as good reviews and, let&#8217;s be real, you ain&#8217;t gonna hurt my feelings (scroll down for details).<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=daverinel-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B013Z6KUW8&#038;asins=B013Z6KUW8&#038;linkId=AUD3DYQQEP3WADZI&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\n<B>ADDED BONUS<\/B>: My celebrated steampunk novella set in the same universe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006RTWZF6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B006RTWZF6&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=daverinel-20&#038;linkId=KSUACAAS6VZRW7NM\">Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=daverinel-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B006RTWZF6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, will be steeply discounted next week.<br \/>\n<B>FUN FACT<\/B>: The most negative review I&#8217;ve ever received was in response to &#8220;The Bold Explorer&#8221;&#8211;which was also my first big break in publishing.  That review begins:<\/p>\n<div id=blkq>&#8220;The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond&#8221; by David Erik Nelson, reads like a sick joke. &#8230; <\/div>\n<p>and ends<\/p>\n<div id=blkq>&#8230; It&#8217;s a dark day in the history of science fiction when such an offensive and ridiculous story appears in one of the pillars of the genre.<\/div>\n<p>It is, to date, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tangentonline.com\/print--monthly-reviewsmenu-259\/asimovs-reviewsmenu-55\/1286-asimovs-february-2010\">my absolute favorite review of one of my works<\/a>.  This guy may not *like* me, but he certainly *gets* me.<br \/>\n(If you wanna stay on top of things, and get advance notice of freebies, giveaways, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquiDaveo\/status\/651466035430858753\">my ongoing lapses in judgement<\/a>, sign up for my <a href=\"http:\/\/davideriknelson.us3.list-manage2.com\/subscribe?u=48cec1615e0aa870c6fe543ba&#038;id=9c05cadb81\">basically-only-monthly newsletter<\/a>. Thanks again!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTENTION: My steampunk short &#8220;The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond&#8221; will be free for Kindle tomorrow and Friday. Here&#8217;s the official link: http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Q7iPcU Please do me a solid and help spread the love far and wide; thanks! If you read the story, please hit it with a review&#8211;even if you don&#8217;t like it. Bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2015\/10\/squidtastic-steampunkery-free-fiction-this-thursday-steampunk-kindle-scifi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Squidtastic Steampunkery: Free Fiction this Thursday! #steampunk #kindle #scifi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}