{"id":7428,"date":"2020-04-01T20:02:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2020-04-01T20:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:02:26","slug":"fyi-pandemic-book-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/fyi-pandemic-book-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"FYI: Pandemic Book Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pandemicbooklaunches.jpg\" alt=\"Pandemic Book Launches\" width=\"436\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus lockdown has made it impossible for people to get together for the launch of a new book. That&#8217;s bad news for authors who count on in-person book launches and events to promote their work.\u00a0 Jim McLeod of Ginger Nuts of Horror has started a Facebook group called Pandemic Book Launches for authors and publishers to promote their recent and soon-to-be published work, including live readings, online and through social media. If you&#8217;re interested, you can check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/799881950501966\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The coronavirus lockdown has made it impossible for people to get together for the launch of a new book. That&#8217;s bad news for authors who count on in-person book launches and events to promote their work.\u00a0 Jim McLeod of Ginger Nuts of Horror has started a Facebook group called Pandemic Book Launches for authors<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/fyi-pandemic-book-launches\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[206,4342,1316,4378],"class_list":["post-7428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-authors","tag-coronavirus","tag-marketing","tag-pandemic-book-launches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}