{"id":393,"date":"2013-12-30T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2013-12-30T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:28:24","slug":"seeing-with-other-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Seeing with Other Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the intriguing things about reviews is the opportunity to see your work as a stranger would. I&#8217;ve been living with my books for so long by the time my readers see them I&#8217;ve lost all sense of distance and perspective. Then I&#8217;ll come along and read a review that makes me think &#8220;Hmm. Never really thought about that, but I suppose that&#8217;s true!&#8221; The most recent exemplar of this being a<a href=\"http:\/\/mikerm.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/review-scent-of-metal.html\"> very nice review<\/a> for <em>Scent of Metal<\/em>. (I didn&#8217;t *plan* to do &#8220;new things with genre&#8221;, it just sort of &#8230;happened. And I&#8217;ll probably do it again.)<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just the nice reviews that do this. Even the puzzled, bewildered, disappointed, or unhappy reviews can have gleaming insights. One recent reviewer, stating a preference for romance-genre books of varying types, was understandably not satisfied with my science fiction (same book as above). BUT! They read the entire book! To have enticed a hard-core (cough) romance reader to finish a moderately hard-core science fiction book is a triumph indeed&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the intriguing things about reviews is the opportunity to see your work as a stranger would. I&#8217;ve been living with my books for so long by the time my readers see them I&#8217;ve lost all sense of distance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/?p=393\">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":[],"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaseadventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}