{"id":209,"date":"2007-02-27T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2007-02-27T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T10:26:00","slug":"writers-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/27\/writers-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received two copies of the March edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writers-forum.com\/\">Writers&#8217; Forum<\/a> in the post.  I wrote a full-page article for them, which was designed to help promote my book, Writing for Video Games.  When I set out to write the article I actually found it a little hard to approach &#8211; how do you put over the subject matter of a whole book in 800 words?  The article had to act as both taster and overview, which was a pretty tall order, but I think I managed to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the magazine was an advertisement for the book with a special offer on it which gives the readers the opportunity to buy it at the reduced price of ten pounds &#8211; nearly a three pound saving!  Unfortunately, they printed the advert slightly wrongly and left off the publisher&#8217;s website, so to make amends they&#8217;re printing the advert again in the next issue.  Swings and roundabouts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been pouring down with rain here and the post person clearly hadn&#8217;t been keeping the letters covered.  The envelope the magazines game it was soaking and the edges of the magazines are wet.  If they don&#8217;t dry out properly I may have to buy another copy to keep for my records.  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received two copies of the March edition of Writers&#8217; Forum in the post. I wrote a full-page article for them, which was designed to help promote my book, Writing for Video Games. When I set out to write the article I actually found it a little hard to approach &#8211; how do you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/27\/writers-forum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writers&#8217; Forum&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-for-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}