{"id":795,"date":"2012-01-06T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/?p=795"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:14:17","slug":"first-fanmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/first-fanmail\/","title":{"rendered":"First Fanmail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Armored<\/a>This only ever happens once in a writer’s career. The first fanmail arrives and your world changes forever.
\nMaybe I’m making too big a deal of it. I don’t know. It feels like a big deal to me. There’s someone out there, whom I’ve never met, that likes the story I wrote. Likes it enough to go to the trouble of emailing me to tell me so.
\nHuge.
\nThe email in question came in on Jan 5 2012. It was short and to the point:<\/p>\n

I just finished reading ‘Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine’ in\u00a0E-arc of Armored and wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed it. Thank you and\u00a0keep up the good writing. I can’t wait to find more of your work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He bought the e-arc of Armored from Baen, here: \u00a0http:\/\/www.baenebooks.com<\/a>\u00a0Notice that there are many other e-books from other excellent Baen authors also available.<\/p>\n

So, a huge shout out to my first fan, JM. \u00a0Thanks dude, I will literally never forget you, creepy as that sounds.<\/p>\n

If it makes you feel better I will probably never forget my first hatemail either. There’s no way to tell when it will happen but, given the nature of the internet, it surely will.<\/p>\n

I’m kind of excited about that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This only ever happens once in a writer’s career. The first fanmail arrives and your world changes forever. Maybe I’m making too big a deal of it. I don’t know. It feels like a big deal to me. There’s someone out there, whom I’ve never met, that likes the story I wrote. Likes it enough … Continue reading First Fanmail<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-hubris","category-storytelling","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}