{"id":4473,"date":"2026-02-09T22:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:38:18","slug":"things-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2026\/02\/09\/things-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m late!<\/p>\n<p>This is because Australia is antisemitism central again and I\u2019ve been dealing. You don\u2019t need yet another post on Australia\u2019s problems, so let me tell you the story of a book.<\/p>\n<p>Some years ago, I wrote a novel. A publisher signed it up but said \u201cThis should be a duology.\u201d I rewrote the first book and added the sequel. Then they went bust.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, another publisher fell in love with the duology but said, \u201cI want the rest of the story.\u201d I did the rewrite and the last volume and it became a trilogy. The COVID hit and the publisher ran into so much trouble. I\u2019m still with them for other books, but we agreed I should find a new publisher for the trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>A US publisher has taken on the first volume. If it sells well, then the trilogy will finally emerge. I so hope it sells well. I\u2019ve been quiet about it because this book was having so much bad luck. Not as much bad luck as my cursed novel, but still, much bad luck.<\/p>\n<p>However, we are finally in a \u201cWatch this space\u201d moment. The cover artist has Ideas and the editor is getting back to me very soon.<\/p>\n<p>When there is an official announcement, I promise to share it. In the meantime, it\u2019s about time I talked about my other published work. I might do a series of posts, to remind myself of novels written and books published.<\/p>\n<p>That gives you two reasons to watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m late! This is because Australia is antisemitism central again and I\u2019ve been dealing. You don\u2019t need yet another post on Australia\u2019s problems, so let me tell you the story of a book. Some years ago, I wrote a novel. A publisher signed it up but said \u201cThis should be a duology.\u201d I rewrote the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,335,16,8,6,636,56,19,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-books-2","category-essays","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-life","category-life-experiences","category-publishing","category-sciencefiction","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}