{"id":6729,"date":"2014-12-24T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T21:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=6729"},"modified":"2014-12-24T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T21:28:57","slug":"last-minute-gift-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/24\/last-minute-gift-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-Minute Gift Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you, like me, are always scrambling on Christmas Eve to find something for that one person who has everything, might I suggest a copy of <em>Stardancer<\/em>, the nifty debut novel by our friend Kelly Sedinger (a.k.a. <a href=\"http:\/\/byzantiumshores.blogspot.com\/\">Jaquandor<\/a>)? It&#8217;s now available for <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/11FIoPi\">download in the Kindle format<\/a>, so you can get it in plenty of time for tomorrow, or you can spend those Amazon gift cards you&#8217;ll be receiving on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stardancer-Song-Forgotten-Stars-Volume\/dp\/150088748X\">traditional paperback copy<\/a> like I&#8217;ve got:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-12-24_stardancer_0001_edit-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6730\" alt=\"2014-12-24_stardancer_0001_edit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-12-24_stardancer_0001_edit-1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-12-24_stardancer_0001_edit-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-12-24_stardancer_0001_edit-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-12-24_stardancer_0001_edit-1-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Or here&#8217;s a third option, if you&#8217;re a gambling sort and a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/\">Goodreads <\/a>community: you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/giveaway\/show\/119900-stardancer\">enter to win<\/a> one of two copies up for grabs, absolutely free! If you (or the recipient of your thoughtful gift) dig good old-fashioned space opera about lost civilizations, ancient mysteries, and young people discovering their destinies &#8212; you know, <em>Star Wars<\/em> and <em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>-type stuff &#8212; you should know about this one.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I feel I owe Kelly a bit of an apology. I&#8217;ve actually had my copy for nearly a month and had every good intention of talking up the book on my various online platforms to try and help his holiday sales, but as so often happens to me, various shiny things demanded my attention and now here we are&#8230; at the last minute, as it were. So, sorry, man, for not doing a better job of advocating for you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you, like me, are always scrambling on Christmas Eve to find something for that one person who has everything, might I suggest a copy of Stardancer, the nifty debut novel by our friend Kelly Sedinger (a.k.a. Jaquandor)? It&#8217;s now available for download in the Kindle format, so you can get it in plenty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}