{"id":2611,"date":"2008-04-17T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:26:39","slug":"guerrilla-book-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/04\/17\/guerrilla-book-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerrilla Book Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/SAfXQopl4RI\/AAAAAAAAAKo\/4GAQjmg1v4I\/s1600-h\/EM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/EM.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190353776357531922\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I printed out loose stack of 346 pages, and this morning I bought some 2-inch binder clips that turned it into a galley copy of Extreme Makeover, one of the two books I&#8217;m edging towards publication.  I needed to read it, aloud, to scare out some of the minor glitches that were sure to be there in formatting and typo&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have been reluctant to read whole novels aloud.  It&#8217;s a huge investment in time and sore throat muscles.  Maybe some people can talk non-stop for hours on end, but I&#8217;m not one of them.  But, it needed to be done.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, come lunch time, it occurred to me that I could do my reading in the park.  The weather was nice, if a little gusty. And, hey, I might collect a new reader.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As that thought gained traction, I printed a little banner with the cover art and the text, &#8220;Yes, I am reading my novel due in June.&#8221; and bought a burger and drink and parked myself in the Pflugerville park and started reading, aloud.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And barely half-way into chapter one, I had one brave soul stop by on her run to listen awhile and look at chapter titles.  She left with a business card and I kept on reading.  My voice lasted about an hour an a half, and I think I&#8217;ll do it again, once it feels normal.  While I didn&#8217;t find any great errors in the 58 pages I read, I made numerous corrections to ease the flow.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Next time, I think I&#8217;ll find a park bench where other people can stop and listen.  Look to my twitter for times and locations.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I printed out loose stack of 346 pages, and this morning I bought some 2-inch binder clips that turned it into a galley copy of Extreme Makeover, one of the two books I&#8217;m edging towards publication. I needed to read it, aloud, to scare out some of the minor glitches that were sure to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/04\/17\/guerrilla-book-reading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guerrilla Book Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,24,373,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/EM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-G7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}