{"id":7750,"date":"2016-02-02T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2016-02-02T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:21:10","slug":"update-oratorio-in-ursa-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7750","title":{"rendered":"Update: <em>Oratorio in Ursa Major<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/oratorio-update.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/oratorio-update.jpg\" alt=\"oratorio-update\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/oratorio-update.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/oratorio-update-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/oratorio-update-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the fall and early winter, the beta readers read the first draft of <em>Oratorio in Ursa Major<\/em>. I discussed the draft with each of the readers, gave a lot of thought to their ideas, and undertook revisions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m flattered that none of the beta readers suggested any major changes in <em>Oratorio<\/em>. Rather, from the discussions with the beta readers it seemed to me that what was needed were some new scenes and even a new character. A few days ago, I finished the second draft. The novel grew by about 60 pages. The paperback version now stands at about 515 pages.<\/p>\n<p>During the revision process, I also thought a great deal more about what wants to happen in book 3, because obviously that needs to be anticipated and foreshadowed in <em>Oratorio<\/em>, which is the second book of a trilogy. Or, who knows. After writing the third novel about Jake&#8217;s adventures, I may want to continue with it.<\/p>\n<p>I have moved the release date from April 1 to June 1. This is to give me more time to proofread for typos, to get all three versions ready (paperback, hardback, and Kindle), to get everything on Amazon for pre-ordering well before the release date, to get review copies mailed out, and to work on jacket blurbs and other promotional stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the fall and early winter, the beta readers read the first draft of Oratorio in Ursa Major. I discussed the draft with each of the readers, gave a lot of thought to their ideas, and undertook revisions. I&#8217;m flattered that none of the beta readers suggested any major changes in Oratorio. Rather, from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update: <em>Oratorio in Ursa Major<\/em>&#8220;<\/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-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","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=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7754,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/7754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}