{"id":27828,"date":"2021-03-07T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27828"},"modified":"2021-03-06T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T00:55:19","slug":"so-thats-why-the-wards-of-iasos-ii-is-still-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/so-thats-why-the-wards-of-iasos-ii-is-still-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"So That&#8217;s Why <em>The Wards of Iasos II<\/em> Is Still &#8220;Coming Soon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My bike shop posted a bit about someone losing weight riding bikes:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oMHiNLsJWJk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hey, I know that guy.  It&#8217;s the author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/29\/book-report-the-wards-of-iasos-book-1-the-leftovers-by-j-christopher-wilson-2016\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wards of Iasos Book 1: The Leftovers<\/a><\/em> which I read in 2017.  When I bought his first book <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/17\/good-book-hunting-saturday-september-16-2017-branson-missouri\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in September 2017<\/a>, I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I saw him at LibraryCon 2017, but he was speaking in a panel when I passed by his table on the way out, so I didn\u2019t buy his book. I saw him and caught a little of a talk he gave at the Ozark Mini Maker Faire the next week. When I saw him yesterday at a table in Hollister, his old home town, I told him if he was going to keep following me to fairs and festivals, I\u2019d buy his book. Now, when I see him around, I\u2019ll remind him of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would think he was stalking me to buy his second book, but:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It&#8217;s not out yet after four years.  <em>But, Brian J., you haven&#8217;t self published a novel in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0051OZ5SC\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0051OZ5SC&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=musinfrombria-20\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">almost ten years<\/a>.<\/em>  Shaddup, italics voice.  Shaddup.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t do the Bicycle Outlet Monday Night Rides because we only have a three bike mount for the back of a car, which means one of our family would have to ride out to Bicycle Outlet to join in and then back some seven or eight miles in the dark.  As a result, currently, the family does the Friday night rides in Battlefield, which is only a couple of miles away.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Of course, this means I&#8217;ll be looking for him when the Friday night rides start up again, and I&#8217;ll have to start seeing him at events and hounding him for the next book in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Which, truth be told, I&#8217;d only buy and throw on the stack.<\/p>\n<p>The only local author I can look in the eye at the next LibraryCon, someday, is <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=%22joshua+chase%22\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><strike>Joshua Chase<\/strike><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/e\/B01FYQ7R1E\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Dodge Merrin<\/a>.  Because I&#8217;m way behind on <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/18\/book-report-obsidian-son-by-shayne-silvers-2012\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Shayne Silvers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/book-report-rise-of-the-sandmen-by-william-schlichter-2016-2017\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">William Schilcter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My bike shop posted a bit about someone losing weight riding bikes: Hey, I know that guy. It&#8217;s the author of The Wards of Iasos Book 1: The Leftovers which I read in 2017. When I bought his first book in September 2017, I said: I saw him at LibraryCon 2017, but he was speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27830,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828\/revisions\/27830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}