{"id":969,"date":"2010-05-18T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2010-05-18T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:54:22","slug":"my-graphic-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/my-graphic-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"My Graphic Novel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent another morning writing and thumbnailing, I figure it&#8217;s time to announce: I sold my book to <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/static\/pages\/publishers\/adult\/gotham.html\">Gotham\/Penguin<\/a>. Hooray! The storyline combines autobiography and studies about artistic creativity, and brilliant cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlhero.com\/\">Megan Kelso<\/a> agreed to help comb over my roughs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long time in the works: two <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/?s=writing+retreat\">writing retreats<\/a>, a reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hugohouse.org\/\">Richard Hugo House<\/a>, lots of late nights at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remedyteas.com\/\">tea house<\/a> with my laptop. Now I have until August, 2011 to get it done. Sleeves rolled up, nose to the grindstone!<\/p>\n<p>A deep curtsey to Lucia Watson, my editor at Gotham, and Holly Bemiss, my agent. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent another morning writing and thumbnailing, I figure it&#8217;s time to announce: I sold my book to Gotham\/Penguin. Hooray! The storyline combines autobiography and studies about artistic creativity, and brilliant cartoonist Megan Kelso agreed to help comb over my roughs. It\u2019s been a long time in the works: two writing retreats, a reading at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/my-graphic-novel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Graphic Novel!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}