{"id":924,"date":"2016-06-25T00:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T00:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2016-06-25T04:49:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T04:49:24","slug":"creatures-a-collection-of-short-stories-pre-order-and-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Creatures: A Collection of Short Stories, pre-order and release date."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01HITRQRA\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B01HITRQRA&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=wibl08-20&amp;linkId=5770dc056db838ac65f899117c672765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-932 \" src=\"http:\/\/willbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Creatures_Final_72dpi_1500x2000-768x1024.png\" alt=\"Creatures_Final_72dpi_1500x2000\" width=\"432\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Creatures make us uneasy because they hold our insecurities and other nasty bits.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Creatures: A Collection of Short Stories<\/em> will be released for Kindle on July 15th. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This collection is like nothing I&#8217;ve written before, very much experimental. I am <em>very<\/em> happy with the outcome and grateful to the many beta-readers for their feedback.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Get to know a suicidal raccoon, a book goblin, a power-hungry seagull, a woodchuck fed up with the impossibility of life, and a dragon who wages psychological warfare on the human race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Find out more &amp; Pre-Order here<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=wibl08-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01HITRQRA&amp;asins=B01HITRQRA&amp;linkId=da18b179401c03a598dabbf589e1b74f&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 36px; left: 414px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creatures make us uneasy because they hold our insecurities and other nasty bits. Creatures: A Collection of Short Stories will be released for Kindle on July 15th. This collection is like nothing I&#8217;ve written before, very much experimental. I am very happy with the outcome &hellip; <\/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-eU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":998,"url":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=998","url_meta":{"origin":924,"position":0},"title":"Creatures: A Collection of Short Stories has a surprise addition...","date":"July 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Consider the Pot Sweetened! Last week I announced the pre-order for Creatures, a collection of 5 short stories that serve as an tribute to a word I'm fascinated with. This week I want to let you know that we've added the first chapter\u00a0 of Raven's Bane to Creatures. Not only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1097,"url":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=1097","url_meta":{"origin":924,"position":1},"title":"Been busy... but progress is being made!","date":"March 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi all, Ravens Bane IS being processed. Had an issue with funding and other consequences of life. We'll be putting out a release date sooner than later, probably for this upcoming summer. If all goes as planned, you'll have a fresh story about the trials and tribulations of Irulen, Kay,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":301,"url":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=301","url_meta":{"origin":924,"position":2},"title":"Ethereal Princess, a collaborative short story.","date":"March 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I may very well have my imperfections, perhaps, but I assure you lechery is certainly not one of them.\" So claims John, the anti-hero of the adventurous, satirical take on the \"damsel in distress\". Co-written with Anthony Pellegrino, Ethereal Princess brings us face-to-face with creepy villains and greasy goblins. Join\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books, Novellas, and Stories&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":797,"url":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=797","url_meta":{"origin":924,"position":3},"title":"Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman","date":"April 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Four of Five Stars The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman, is an 'adult' fairy tale novel (a novella, really, or close to it) that follows a middle-aged narrator who is inexplicably drawn back to the lane he grew up on. It was here, some years\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":121,"url":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=121","url_meta":{"origin":924,"position":4},"title":"Top Ten Lists for Smashinglists.com","date":"March 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently finished a very fun job writing up ten \"Top Ten Lists\" for www.smashinglists.com.The job included conceptualizing and researching my own material, which was a blast. I have since been commissioned to produce another batch of lists. Here are the lists I wrote: Top Ten Mistakenly Harmful Inventions Top 10\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Copywriting&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1017,"url":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/?p=1017","url_meta":{"origin":924,"position":5},"title":"5 Questions with Fantasy Reader and Hobbyist Writer  John Blenkinsop","date":"July 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I think the real fun thing about this interview is that John writes for children he knows in the same way that Tolkien did. Stories written for specific children tend to resonate with others, and the same can be said about the Worlds of\u00a0Yifan books. Prince Yifan and Princess Yifan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Author Interviews&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}