{"id":6,"date":"2008-03-07T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T00:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-03-07T23:59:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T07:59:59","slug":"paperbacks-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/paperbacks-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Paperbacks & Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Word on the street is that paperbacks are starting to arrive in people’s mailboxes. Great to hear that the pool of “readers” is about to move past the original handpicked dozen or so who read the early evolving drafts. Very exciting times as I wait in eager anticipation of some candid reviews.<\/p>\n

I’m heading out of town tomorrow for a Red Sox spring training bachelor party in Florida and don’t know if I’ll be able to post from the road, so the blog may be quiet for awhile. But who has time to read a blog when they have the real thing in their hands? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Once I get back we’ll start in on some chapter by chapter commentary posts. I was hesitant to start that too early so as not to be spoiler heavy before people had a chance to get started and know the baseline context of what I’m talking about, so this vacation is probably a good thing.<\/p>\n

But it will be somewhat of a working vacation as well. I decided to print up some promotional postcards from VistaPrint.com<\/a> pointing people towards the Red Sox related deleted scenes<\/a>. I guess we’ll soon see if Time Travel and baseball go together…<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample of the postcard. I was pretty impressed with the quality of the print job (click for full size):<\/p>\n

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\"Timely<\/p>\n

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Until next time, happy reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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