{"id":4205,"date":"2015-01-29T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2020-01-02T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:08:21","slug":"speaking-of-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/speaking-of-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever encountered a business where there\u2019s so much poor advice or lousy, limiting thinking than the writing business, nor so much misinformation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MSLiu6\">Russell Blake<\/a>, novelist.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s <a title=\"Russell Blake\" href=\"http:\/\/russellblake.com\/the-philosophy-of-being-a-hack\/#comment-53564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writing about the myth that only &#8220;hacks&#8221; write novels quickly<\/a>, but that observation could be applied to a looooot of other things as well.<\/p>\n<p>(For context, see my posts on indie author marketing, e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/why-marketing-indie-books-is-so-hard-part-1\/\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/why-marketing-indie-books-is-so-hard-competition-value-pricing-part-2\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day: I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever encountered a business where there\u2019s so much poor advice or lousy, limiting thinking than the writing business, nor so much misinformation. &#8212;Russell Blake, novelist. He&#8217;s writing about the myth that only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/speaking-of-misinformation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,3],"tags":[498,1377,1376,1378,1380,241],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-to-the-truth-about-indie-author-marketing-clear-eyed-guide-to-author-marketing-services","category-writing","tag-amwriting","tag-getting-to-the-truth-about-indie-author-marketing","tag-indie-author-marketing","tag-indie-publishing","tag-russell-blake","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5958,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/5958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}