{"id":1030,"date":"2009-11-19T10:44:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T18:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2009-11-19T10:44:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T18:44:59","slug":"and-then-there-were-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"And Then There Were Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cropped shot of the shelf where I keep my working editions &#8211; the ones that I take with me to my events at schools, libraries, bookshops, festivals, etc. That&#8217;s why <strong>Black Tat<\/strong> and <strong>Tim<\/strong> look a bit battered. But long-term followers of this blog might notice something new on their right. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1031  aligncenter\" title=\"AndThenThereWereThree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AndThenThereWereThree.JPG\" alt=\"AndThenThereWereThree\" width=\"217\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AndThenThereWereThree.JPG 302w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AndThenThereWereThree-141x300.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The advance reader copies &#8211; &#8216;proofs&#8217; &#8211; of <strong>Crawlers<\/strong> arrived this morning. These are rough, not-quite-finished versions of the book that will be given to booksellers, reviewers and other interested parties in the hope of generating some early buzz before the final version officially launches this <strong>April 2010<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To me, after two years of work, they&#8217;re something else, too. Now, for the first time, <strong>Crawlers is <\/strong><strong>a proper book at last<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My disgusting, betentacled, mutant offspring (but its daddy loves it) is almost ready to slither forth out into the world with its siblings.<\/p>\n<p>Today is a super good day. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cropped shot of the shelf where I keep my working editions &#8211; the ones that I take with me to my events at schools, libraries, bookshops, festivals, etc. That&#8217;s why Black Tat and Tim look a bit battered. But long-term followers of this blog might notice something new on their right. \ud83d\ude09 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}