{"id":2189,"date":"2016-07-08T14:14:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T18:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2016-07-08T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T18:14:57","slug":"july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/08\/july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-23-08.48.44-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2016-06-23 08.48.44-2\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-23-08.48.44-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-23-08.48.44-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-23-08.48.44-2-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-23-08.48.44-2-610x610.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-23-08.48.44-2-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-23-08.48.44-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-23-08.48.44-2-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greetings all.<\/p>\n<p>Again, been awhile since I had the time to put up a blog post&#8230; quite busy.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of June (22-27) I was in Nashville at the Utopia con, meeting a whole bunch of fun people &#8211; authors, readers, bloggers, cover artists, etc. The 13-hour car ride I could maybe do without, but the con itself was a lot of fun. (Coming from someone who generally avoids disruptions to the usual routine, I suppose that says a lot that I&#8217;d be up for doing it again.)<\/p>\n<p>I also got to meet some fellow Curiosity Quills authors &#8211; Ayden Morgen, Eliza Tilton, and Jadah McCoy (though Jadah is like a coalescence of energy in human form &#8211; she didn&#8217;t spend a lot of time at the table.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-20-12.54.14-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"2016-06-20 12.54.14\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-20-12.54.14-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-20-12.54.14-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-20-12.54.14-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-20-12.54.14-610x813.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-06-20-12.54.14-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did the ride in one shot both coming and going&#8230; (this photo is somewhere in Virginia along I-81.) It wasn&#8217;t as bad as I thought it would be, but still&#8230; if not for lugging boxes of books, perhaps flying would be better despite the cost.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; in other news &#8211; we&#8217;re coming up on July 18th, and the release of my vampire novel, Chiaroscuro &#8211; The Mouse and the Candle. We&#8217;re doing a release party (online event) on Facebook &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1191383477559548\/ &#8211; that all are welcome to pop in.<\/p>\n<p>We have a bunch of prizes to give away during the event, including two $10 amazon gift cards, two signed copies of Chiaroscuro, 3 of my ebooks, and a list of other ebooks generously donated by their respective authors:<\/p>\n<p>Escape from Witchwood Hollow &#8211; Jori Mierek<br \/>\nTreasure Darkly &#8211; Jori Mierek<br \/>\nCogling &#8211; Jori Mierek<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nWithout Bloodshed &#8211; Matthew Graybosch<br \/>\nFive Out of the Dark &#8211; Holli Lloyd Anderson<br \/>\nWinner&#8217;s Pick of (How to Date Dead Guys \/ How to Ditch Dead Guys \/ Dead Girl Running) &#8211; Ann Noser<br \/>\nThe Artful &#8211; Wilbert Stanton<br \/>\nLove In the First Degree Anthology &#8211; Clare Dugmore &amp; Others<br \/>\nBroken Branch Falls &#8211; Tara Robinson<br \/>\nBroken Forest &#8211; Eliza Tilton<br \/>\nThe Unquiet Dead &#8211; Chris Dubecki<br \/>\nGoat Children &#8211; Jori Mierek<br \/>\nVictorian &#8211; Jori Mierek<br \/>\nGears of Brass Anthology &#8211; Jori Mierek &amp; Others<br \/>\nThe Undead &#8211; Linda Coy Elmore<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the release, Curiosity Quills is putting Prophet of the Badlands (The Awakened series book 1) on sale for .99 (ebook only) on July 23 and 24.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m busily working on edits for book 4 in that series (Daughter of Ash) now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll stop rambling for now. Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p>-Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings all. Again, been awhile since I had the time to put up a blog post&#8230; quite busy. 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