{"id":2036,"date":"2015-11-25T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2015-11-25T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:47:20","slug":"i-cant-discuss-my-next-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/25\/i-cant-discuss-my-next-book\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t discuss my next book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Boom-boom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Boom-boom-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Ka-Boom!\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2037\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Boom-boom-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Boom-boom.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I wish to make it clear I am not at liberty to discuss my next novel. By agreement between my publisher and myselves, I can in no way imply, discuss, or indicate by wink or nudge just exactly what&#8217;s the subject of my next thriller, due out early next year.<\/p>\n<p>What I can tell you is, it will not be another science fiction book in my <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/LandingPage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dinosaur Wars<\/a> series. Nor will it be another <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/LandingPageSmallpox.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peyton McKean<\/a> medical thriller. New volumes in those series will appear later in 2016. But don&#8217;t fret. This novel will have all the raw adventure and excitement folks have come to expect from me.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first in a new series of novels that involve natural phenomena, environmental catastrophes, and other manifestations of the awesomeness of the world around us. The title of the new series is&#8211;well&#8211;that&#8217;s a secret too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hot-stuff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hot-stuff-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Splat!\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2038\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hot-stuff-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hot-stuff.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>I have been rigorously researching and writing about certain, er, events that have occurred recently, in order to get the kind of realism I like in my stories. But I can&#8217;t tell you exactly which phenomenon is at center stage this time around. You&#8217;ll just have to use your imagination and make your best guess.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t tell you exactly which phenomenon is at center stage this time around. You&#8217;ll just have to use your imagination and make your best guess. <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/25\/i-cant-discuss-my-next-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,360],"tags":[66,370,240,51],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author","category-nature","tag-ebook","tag-natural-disaster","tag-new","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","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=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}