{"id":943,"date":"2015-04-28T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/?p=943"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T18:11:58","slug":"bait-published-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/bait-published-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bait&#8221; Published!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00WNIPVH4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bait-A-Novel-Kindle-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bait-A-Novel-Kindle\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bait-A-Novel-Kindle-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bait-A-Novel-Kindle-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bait-A-Novel-Kindle-624x998.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bait-A-Novel-Kindle.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>Woo-hoo! My third novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00WNIPVH4\">Bait<\/a>, is now available on Amazon! Head on over and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00WNIPVH4\">read the first few chapters<\/a> for free!<\/p>\n<p><em>Bait<\/em> is a smart, funny book set in contemporary California.<\/p>\n<p>Doreen has a problem. The man she loves is sick and getting worse every day. So she does what anyone would to: she turns to a set of ancient bracelets that claim to heal and protect one person by sucking the life force out of other people.<\/p>\n<p>Doreen&#8217;s targets are Jason, an ex-Olympic diver now performing at a run-down theme park, Lucy, a struggling actress who&#8217;s just landed a starring role in a terrible play, and Sammy, a small-time con man who has accidentally become a City Councilman.<\/p>\n<p>Smart characters, snappy dialog, an inflatable security guard, hungry sharks, and a pair of overly well-matched twins populate this goofy but warm story of love, jewelry, finding self-confidence, and just desserts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woo-hoo! My third novel, Bait, is now available on Amazon! Head on over and read the first few chapters for free! Bait is a smart, funny book set in contemporary California. Doreen has a problem. The man she loves is sick and getting worse every day. So she does what anyone would to: she turns [&hellip;]<\/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-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}