{"id":5427,"date":"2013-08-01T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T03:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2013-08-01T23:24:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T03:24:26","slug":"not-a-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5427","title":{"rendered":"Not a Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When you\u2019re more invested in the business of books than you are in loving them, well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmarkbertrand.com\/no-victims-here\/\">person you cheat is yourself<\/a>,&#8221; says J. Mark Bertrand (&#8220;a major crime-fiction talent!&#8221;) in response to discussion on the size of his readership. He notes that too often commenters throw out names of authors they think should be selling more books, and then ask where all the good books are, blaming publishing houses along the way.<\/p>\n<p>You can get all of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/J.-Mark-Bertrand\/e\/B001JS2SN4\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bertrand&#8217;s Books<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> here for your friends, family, and enemies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1455867152\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1455867152&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\">Audiobooks<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1455867152\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> are also available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When you\u2019re more invested in the business of books than you are in loving them, well, the person you cheat is yourself,&#8221; says J. Mark Bertrand (&#8220;a major crime-fiction talent!&#8221;) in response to discussion on the size of his readership. He notes that too often commenters throw out names of authors they think should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not a Victim<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-bookselling"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}