{"id":167,"date":"2007-03-10T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2007-03-10T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T21:19:00","slug":"for-anyone-whos-a-writer-trying-to-get-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"For anyone who&#8217;s a writer trying to get published&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=left>\n<p>This article link was posted to the self-publishing list: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/130848\/confessions_of_a_writer_the_ugly_truth.html\">The Ugly Truth about being a Writer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the fact that 200,000 books per year are published in the United States, Marion Gropen of the self-publishing e-list said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt&#8217;s easy for someone who hasn&#8217;t really seen what 200,000 books look<br \/>\nlike to underestimate the task. If each book took up 1 inch of width on<br \/>\na shelf, and the shelves were 1 foot apart, and 6 feet high, then the<br \/>\nbooks would take up more than 1\/2 mile of book cases. Every year. And<br \/>\nyour book is taking up 1 inch of shelving on one shelf in the maze. Why<br \/>\nwould they ever see it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article link was posted to the self-publishing list: The Ugly Truth about being a Writer. Referring to the fact that 200,000 books per year are published in the United States, Marion Gropen of the self-publishing e-list said: It&#8217;s easy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}