{"id":363,"date":"2015-06-08T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2015-06-08T20:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:17:54","slug":"a-bump-in-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"A bump in the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sadly we didn’t place in the Inkitt ‘Epic Worlds’ competition. As the most reviewed 5-star fantasy on the site, 5th most popular fantasy on the entire website in the last month, second most-voted story in the competition, it is hard not to feel a bit let down in this decision. However, the writing of this story was very much an experiment and we were aware that it may not resonate with all readers. I can’t say that the Inkitt staff has been anything less than professional – they have. Thank you everyone for your support, you are the reason that Ethereal Princess <\/em>was even considered in the first place. I posted the first arc of Ravens in the Sky<\/a> to Inkitt’s mystery writing contest, and hope to capitalize off the splash we made last go around. Views, votes, and reviews all help the cause! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadly we didn’t place in the Inkitt ‘Epic Worlds’ competition. As the most reviewed 5-star fantasy on the site, 5th most popular fantasy on the entire website in the last month, second most-voted story in the competition, it is hard not to feel a bit … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aT9B-5R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":888,"url":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=888","url_meta":{"origin":363,"position":0},"title":"5 Questions with Christian Fantasy Author Hope Ann","date":"June 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"What follows is the first of many author interviews I'll be posting throughout the summer. 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