{"id":436,"date":"2011-06-24T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2011\/06\/24\/teaser-and-revisions\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:50:00","slug":"teaser-and-revisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2011\/06\/24\/teaser-and-revisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaser and Revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry, my blog is boring right now because I’m working hard on the edits for The Unfinished Song: Sacrifice. It will be a few more iterations, I fear. Since I don’t have the energy for a real post, I’ll give you an excerpt from the book. Here’s a rare scene with no spoilers, unless you haven’t read The Unfinished Song: Taboo<\/a>\"\" yet, in which case go do so at once before you read this. (Just kidding.)<\/p>\n

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Vessia<\/h3>\n
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\u201cYou can\u2019t be rid of me that easily.\u201d<\/div>\n
The voice was unexpected. Vessia whirled around to see Nangi watching her. <\/div>\n
Vessia felt a frisson of resentment shudder through her. It had been so long since she had run through the meadows alone, as she\u2019d used to when she lived with Old Man and Old Woman. She missed the smell of heather under open sky. She needed wind to lift her hair off her neck, she needed to swing her arms without anyone touching her shoulder to calm her. The land they were passing through now was hot, dry and dead, closed up into canyons of striated rock. Trekking through the stone passages, where sometimes the overhang was so high it blocked the sun, was like traversing caves, or tombs. When she\u2019d told Vio she wanted to leave and be on her own for a while, he had only laughed and told her that being a prisoner meant not being free. She had retorted, \u201cBut am I not your wife?\u201d and either because of that or because he noticed the mad itch in her, he relented. He let her go alone to a cool gathering of water in the rock, a place where aspen grew around the water\u2019s edge and swans paused on their migration to swim. And now, just when she thought she was alone, she discovered Nangi had followed her.<\/div>\n
\u201cI can eat your thoughts, you know.\u201d Nangi smiled a nasty smile.<\/div>\n
Vessia had seen her do this with others; she would sidle up to them, hiss at them that she could eat their thoughts, and then grin while they broke into a sweat and began to stammer. Vessia didn\u2019t understand why they feared having their thoughts eaten.<\/div>\n
\u201cDo they taste good?\u201d Vessia asked. This was something she had always wondered.<\/div>\n
Nangi\u2019s eyes narrowed like a cat\u2019s. \u201cHow do you do that?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDo what?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cShield your thoughts! How do you do it? Stop it at once! It only proves you have something to hide! Let your thoughts out at once or I shall report you to my father!\u201d<\/div>\n

Oh, and there’s this too, if you somehow missed it: J.K. Rowling is now an indie author.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry, my blog is boring right now because I’m working hard on the edits for The Unfinished Song: Sacrifice. It will be a few more iterations, I fear. Since I don’t have the energy for a real post, I’ll give you an excerpt from the book. Here’s a rare scene with no spoilers, unless you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}