{"id":1919,"date":"2012-10-24T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2012-10-24T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:30:18","slug":"vain-in-my-veins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2012\/10\/24\/vain-in-my-veins\/","title":{"rendered":"Vain in my veins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60661816@N02\/8120771743\/\" title=\"library by scaplan1, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8051\/8120771743_20829823b4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"library\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of my exhaustive (exhausting?) all-encompassing marketing of my two novels, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Welcome-Home-Sir-Steve-Caplan\/dp\/1937536092\/ref=la_B006CSULBW_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1351128028&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome Home, Sir<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Matter-Over-Mind-Steve-Caplan\/dp\/0615398618\/ref=la_B006CSULBW_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1351128028&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Matter Over Mind<\/a>,&#8221; I have undertaken a campaign to get my novels purchased and on the shelves of public libraries. Indeed, this is a great potential market for any of you who might be trying to sell a few more books, as local libraries like to showcase local authors.<\/p>\n<p>Shown above is one of my novels at my own local branch (there are 4 copies available in the library system, and 2 of my other novel). Although Truman Capote is not my favorite author, having &#8220;Matter Over Mind&#8221; by Caplan side-by-side with Capote is a pretty humbling experience. Or so says Mr. Vain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my exhaustive (exhausting?) all-encompassing marketing of my two novels, &#8220;Welcome Home, Sir&#8221; and &#8220;Matter Over Mind,&#8221; I have undertaken a campaign to get my novels purchased and on the shelves of public libraries. Indeed, this is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2012\/10\/24\/vain-in-my-veins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,50],"tags":[479,758,604,759],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-science","tag-books","tag-library","tag-novels","tag-vanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}