{"id":1193,"date":"2010-01-07T20:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2010-01-07T20:11:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:11:33","slug":"plr-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"PLR Hurrah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having malingered, gleefully, for the full holiday period, this has been my first week back at the desk \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I&#8217;ve just had some <strong>brilliant news<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My <strong>PLR <\/strong>statement has arrived. PLR stands for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_Lending_Right\"><strong>Public Lending Right<\/strong><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a count of how many times my books are borrowed from libraries each year. Of course PLR is about money: fyi, each time someone takes home <strong>Black Tat <\/strong>or <strong>Tim <\/strong>from their local library I get a little over 6p. But to me, it&#8217;s more about <strong>how many readers I&#8217;m reaching<\/strong>. And for someone who&#8217;s only been in this &#8216;published author&#8217; game since 2006, the figures are very encouraging\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\"><strong>The Black Tattoo<\/strong><\/a> was borrowed <strong>4,694 times<\/strong> in the last year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that&#8217;s just here in the UK. I&#8217;m also delighted to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\"><strong>Tim, Defender of the Earth<\/strong><\/a> is hot on its heels, at <strong>3,767 times<\/strong>. Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\"><strong>Crawlers<\/strong><\/a> won&#8217;t have been out for a full year by the time of my next statement (the launch isn&#8217;t &#8217;til April). But come next January you can bet I&#8217;ll be waiting anxiously to hear just how the <strong>youngest of my mutant offspring<\/strong> has been doing in libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to try books out for free at my local library has played a MASSIVE part in making me the reader and writer I am today. So the fact that my own books are in libraries right now, doing (I hope) the same for other people\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that gives me an<strong> enormous thrill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A HUGE thank you to librarians everywhere for the amazing jobs you do. And a very <strong>Happy New Year<\/strong> to you, reading this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to have got 2009 out of the way, aren&#8217;t you? Here&#8217;s to 2010, and whatever (else) it brings. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having malingered, gleefully, for the full holiday period, this has been my first week back at the desk \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I&#8217;ve just had some brilliant news. My PLR statement has arrived. PLR stands for Public Lending Right \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a count of how many times my books are borrowed from libraries each year. Of course PLR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"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=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}