{"id":1928,"date":"2023-06-13T21:28:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T01:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2023-06-13T21:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T01:28:49","slug":"out-now-the-shadow-dancers-of-brixton-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/out-now-the-shadow-dancers-of-brixton-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Now: THE SHADOW DANCERS OF BRIXTON HILL"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1929\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sdbhcake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1929 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sdbhcake-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sdbhcake-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sdbhcake.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill surprised me last week with this awesome cover cake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Authors know that nothing\u00a0in publishing happens fast&#8230;except when it does.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, <a href=\"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/novella-announcement-the-shadow-dancers-of-brixton-hill\/\">I first got the idea <\/a>of a troupe of dancers who could make their shadows dance independently of their bodies. By mid-July, I had a draft I was comfortable submitting to publishers. After the first rejection, I reworked the novella and tried again. I got one of the nicest rejections I&#8217;ve ever received\u00a0with my second try, which made me think someone somewhere would want this.<\/p>\n<p>I submitted it to Cemetery Gates Media, who&#8217;d published two of my short stories, on a Thursday night in January 2023. That Saturday morning, they made me an offer to publish. When they told me they could have it out by June, I was astounded. I worked through my bout with COVID-19 to make the edits Joe suggested. And sure enough, the novella came together just as he said it would.<\/p>\n<p>And today\u00a0it&#8217;s out. I will be bringing ARCs and an excerpt to read at StokerCon in Pittsburgh this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available in eBook and paperback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0C4C19Q2L?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. If you liked <em>Tidepool<\/em>, I think you&#8217;ll like this. If you hated <em>Tidepool<\/em>, I think you still might like this. I hope you do; it&#8217;s one of my favorite things I&#8217;ve ever written. And if you read it, please, please, please leave an honest review\u2014yay, meh, or nay\u2014on Amazon and anywhere else you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors know that nothing\u00a0in publishing happens fast&#8230;except when it does. Last spring, I first got the idea of a troupe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,101,130,4],"tags":[12,126,5,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}