{"id":4741,"date":"2022-08-25T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2022-08-25T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:17:07","slug":"the-blacksmiths-apprentice-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/the-blacksmiths-apprentice-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blacksmith’s Apprentice… coming soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Folks... I have finally finished writing a book. It's with some beta readers now and then off to editing when they're done. Watch this space for updates on when and where it will be published \ud83c\udf89 :) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Themes & trigger warnings are as follows: fantasy-ish setting, non-human, slow burn, grumpy\/sunshine, may\/december, caste system, slavery, rape\/abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Folks… I have finally finished writing a book. It’s with some beta readers now and then off to editing when they’re done. Watch this space for updates on when and where it will be published \ud83c\udf89 :) Themes & trigger warnings are as follows: fantasy-ish setting, non-human, slow burn, grumpy\/sunshine, may\/december, caste system, slavery, rape\/abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[849],"tags":[887,891,885,884,201,697,890,888,889,472,886],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blacksmiths-apprentice","tag-caste-system","tag-coming-soon","tag-fantasy-setting","tag-grumpy-sunshine-ish","tag-kindle","tag-maydecember","tag-new-book","tag-non-human","tag-rape-abuse","tag-slavery","tag-slow-burn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-1et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4971,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/now-live-the-blacksmiths-apprentice\/","url_meta":{"origin":4741,"position":0},"title":"NOW LIVE – The Blacksmith’s Apprentice","author":"Bey","date":"December 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Welp. 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