{"id":21781,"date":"2016-04-17T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T14:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=21781"},"modified":"2016-04-17T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T14:12:01","slug":"check-out-the-cover-to-the-next-issue-of-postscripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/17\/check-out-the-cover-to-the-next-issue-of-postscripts\/","title":{"rendered":"A new story of mine is now available in the latest issue of Postscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2016\/02\/20\/the-full-table-of-contents-for-the-next-issue-of-postscripts-has-been-revealed\/\">I revealed<\/a> the title of a story of mine which was to appear in the next issue of <em>Postscripts<\/em>. It&#8217;s my second-longest title ever, falling one word short of my longest&#8212;&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/short-fiction\/how-amraphel-found-his-way\/\">How Amraphel, the Assistant to Dream, Became a Thief, Lost His Job, and Found His Way<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, the issue containing &#8220;The Man Without the Blue Balloon and the Woman Who Had Smiles Only for Him&#8221; is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pspublishing.co.uk\/postscripts-3637-the-dragons-of-the-night-hardcover-edited-by-nick-gevers-3914-p.asp\">available from PS Publishing<\/a>, and here&#8217;s the cover, which eerily captures the volume&#8217;s subtitle, &#8220;The Dragons of the Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36371-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Postscripts36371\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36371-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36371.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the full Table of Contents, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2016\/02\/20\/the-full-table-of-contents-for-the-next-issue-of-postscripts-has-been-revealed\/\">my earlier post<\/a>, or take a look at this full cover spread, which includes the authors and story titles on the inside front cover flap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36372.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36372-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"Postscripts36372\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36372-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36372-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36372-1024x442.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Postscripts36372.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The marks my fifth short story publication in <em>Postscripts<\/em>. Pete Crowther and Nick Gevers have been good to me. I hope that when you read &#8220;The Man Without the Blue Balloon and the Woman Who Had Smiles Only for Him,&#8221; you&#8217;ll feel that confidence has been justified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, I revealed the title of a story of mine which was to appear in the next issue of Postscripts. It&#8217;s my second-longest title ever, falling one word short of my longest&#8212;&#8221;How Amraphel, the Assistant to Dream, Became a Thief, Lost His Job, and Found His Way.&#8221; Well, the issue containing &#8220;The Man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,307],"class_list":["post-21781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing","tag-postscripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21781"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21792,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781\/revisions\/21792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}