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Aimee: I polled my super-readers<\/a> and 55% of them said they’d like to hear about your background. Do you think you have a short story in you?<\/p>\n Hunter: Sure.<\/p>\n Aimee to herself: Hmm, he sure is terse. But I’ll bet I can drag at least one anecdote of him.<\/p>\n One week of dictation later….<\/em><\/p>\n Aimee: I’m starting to get worried here. I’ve already\u00a0pounded out 6,000 words…and we’re not quite to the one-quarter mark yet. I thought you said you’d give me a short story.<\/p>\n Hunter: I am.<\/p>\n Aimee: A short story is under 7,500 words. A novelette would be okay — that’s 7,500 words to 17,500 words. More than that and we’re in novella territory and pushing into my fall deadline for Wolf Landing.<\/p>\n Hunter: Do you want to hear this story or not?<\/p>\n Aimee [sighing]: Okay. What happened next?<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n In other words, your bonus short story is turning into a bonus novella and Wolf Landing<\/a> might arrive in late fall rather than in mid fall. I swear it’s not my fault. Here, how about you take a poll to help me decide on a title<\/a> so Hunter can make me ignore that request just like he did your previous one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aimee: I polled my super-readers and 55% of them said they’d like to hear about your background. Do you think you have a short story in you? Hunter: Sure. Aimee to herself: Hmm, he sure is terse. But I’ll bet I can drag at least one anecdote of him. One week of dictation later…. Aimee: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aimee-easterling-news","category-alpha-underground-series","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}