{"id":6079,"date":"2015-01-12T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2015-01-12T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:23:04","slug":"doubt-your-unwelcomed-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6079","title":{"rendered":"Doubt: Your Unwelcomed Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicci Cloke writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@faberacademy\/the-doubtful-novelist-cb30fcaf1520\">beginning the year as a new novelist<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This time of year is one of the worst for The Doubts, with social media churning out list upon list of books to look out for in 2015. Author Claire King rightly explains here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claire-king.com\/2014\/12\/29\/on-not-being-the-most-anticipated\/\">how unnecessarily stressful<\/a> it can be\u200a\u2014\u200aespecially for a debut novelist\u200a\u2014\u200ato scan those and not find your book listed. And, let\u2019s be honest\u200a\u2014\u200athere\u2019s always some handy stick-shaped internet fodder you can find to beat your poor old ego with. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the post to which Ms. Cloke links, Ms. King observes, &#8220;MOST of us are not the most anticipated. But if your pool of debut authors is limited to you and the ones everyone is shouting about on twitter and in the newspapers it\u2019s very easy to feel like the poor relation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicci Cloke writes about beginning the year as a new novelist. This time of year is one of the worst for The Doubts, with social media churning out list upon list of books to look out for in 2015. Author Claire King rightly explains here how unnecessarily stressful it can be\u200a\u2014\u200aespecially for a debut novelist\u200a\u2014\u200ato &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6079\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doubt: Your Unwelcomed Companion<\/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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"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\/6079","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=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}