{"id":1324,"date":"2013-08-24T06:32:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T14:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2013-08-24T06:32:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T14:32:44","slug":"hangin-with-the-thomas-mercer-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/24\/hangin-with-the-thomas-mercer-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Hangin&#8217; with the Thomas &#038; Mercer crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/On-the-Lam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1325\" alt=\"Flyer\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/On-the-Lam.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Today I gotta be brief. I&#8217;m halfway through a final revision of my new medical thriller The Neah Virus, but I&#8217;ve got to get away from this computer and take in some fresh Seattle air. What better place to do so than at &#8220;On The Lam,&#8221; Amazon&#8217;s parade of authors with its new mystery\/thriller publishing imprint, Thomas &amp; Mercer (named for the intersection where Amazon&#8217;s headquarters stand).<\/p>\n<p>This looks like a fun daylong event in which a whole passel of writers extoll the wonders of working with Amazon. For my own part, I&#8217;ll sidle up kinda easy-like. I&#8217;m not too sure I want ANY publisher owning part of what I create. My experience of the movie optioning of my Dinosaur Wars books to a major Hollywood film company has taught me that the modern author really doesn&#8217;t need any help.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ll be all eyes and ears. Maybe there&#8217;s something particularly good about the deals Amazon is handing out to mystery and thriller writers. If so, I might just be interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe there&#8217;s something particularly good about the deals Amazon&#8217;s Thomas &#038; Mercer imprint is handing out to mystery and thriller writers. <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/24\/hangin-with-the-thomas-mercer-crowd\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,78],"tags":[53,240,51,5],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author","category-seattle","tag-mystery","tag-new","tag-novel","tag-peyton-mckean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}