{"id":4231,"date":"2013-08-02T07:12:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2013-08-02T07:12:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T11:12:48","slug":"chronicles-of-plastic-deer-swoon-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/chronicles-of-plastic-deer-swoon-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles of Plastic Deer | Swoon Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"swoon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My homage to the teen romances of my youth, Chronicles of Plastic Deer, is now on Swoon Reads<\/a>.\u00a0 Swoon Reads is new publisher site to harvest crowd rating and feedback on a book in order to determine whether or not it should be published.\u00a0 So…kind of like a publisher’s own fiction board.<\/p>\n

It solves two problems of mine:\u00a0 not know where to put the full text of my book and getting involved in a community of like minded creators (which I’ve been told I need to do).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My homage to the teen romances of my youth, Chronicles of Plastic Deer, is now on Swoon Reads.\u00a0 Swoon Reads is new publisher site to harvest crowd rating and feedback on a book in order to determine whether or not it should be published.\u00a0 So…kind of like a publisher’s own fiction board. 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