{"id":7254,"date":"2015-10-04T17:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T21:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2015-10-04T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T21:42:52","slug":"oratorio-in-ursa-major-april-1-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7254","title":{"rendered":"<em>Oratorio in Ursa Major<\/em> &#8212; April 1, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jake-for-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"994\" height=\"1167\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jake-for-blog.jpg\" alt=\"jake-for-blog\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jake-for-blog.jpg 994w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jake-for-blog-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jake-for-blog-872x1024.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have contracted with illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/duncanlong.com\/illustration\/fantasy_book_illustrations\/fantasy_book_cover_illustrations.html\">Duncan Long<\/a> for the cover illustration for <em>Oratorio in Ursa Major<\/em>, the sequel to <em>Fugue in Ursa Major<\/em>. The publication date for <em>Oratorio<\/em> will be April 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The manuscript for Oratorio is finished, and the book will go out to the beta readers later this month.<\/p>\n<p>About <em>Oratorio in Ursa Major<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Jake Janaway, one of the few survivors of a global apocalypse, undertakes a dangerous journey to recover knowledge from the past that can help lead the planet out of another Dark Age. With the help of a galactic federation of extraterrestrials, Jake and his four companions are transported back to 48 B.C. to recover the lost knowledge of the ancient Celts. Jake learns a whole new way of thinking \u2014 and loving \u2014 untainted by the corruptions of Rome and its rigid religion. Though this is an adventure novel, the high intelligence of the characters and the harsh trials they face will give the reader a new perspective on how our wounded culture came to be what it is, and how we might progress beyond it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jake-cover-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"912\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jake-cover-blog.jpg\" alt=\"jake-cover-blog\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jake-cover-blog.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jake-cover-blog-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have contracted with illustrator Duncan Long for the cover illustration for Oratorio in Ursa Major, the sequel to Fugue in Ursa Major. The publication date for Oratorio will be April 1, 2016. The manuscript for Oratorio is finished, and the book will go out to the beta readers later this month. About Oratorio in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<em>Oratorio in Ursa Major<\/em> &#8212; April 1, 2016&#8243;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}