{"id":210,"date":"2010-08-22T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2010-08-22T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:06:25","slug":"first-critique-for-crying-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"First Critique for &#8220;Crying Blood&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth Alafair book,<em>Crying Blood<\/em>, is at the printers now, and advance reading copies have been sent to critics and to some well-known mystery authors for review and, we hope, a cover quote.  My editor received the first attribution on Friday from the great Margaret Maron.  This will definitely be on the cover (which I will also post as soon as I have a final version) in part or in whole. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Crying Blood<\/strong> <em>is a thoroughly engrossing evocation of life on a self-sufficient 1915 Oklahoma farm.\u00a0 In Alafair Tucker, mother of ten, Donis Casey has created a clear-eyed woman of her time:\u00a0 pre-ERA, accepting of her place in a male-dominated society, but not hampered by it because she well knows the value of her contributions to her family&#8217;s well-being.\u00a0 This is my first meeting with Alafair Tucker and her family.It will not be my last.<br \/>\n<\/em> &#8211; Margaret Maron<\/p>\n<p>I can hardly say how happy I am that she did this, nor can I say how relieved I am that she liked it!  It was due to the good offices of Carolyn Hart, another great mystery author and I must say a great human being, that Maron agreed to read my book.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned, for as the February publication date nears, I&#8217;ll post not just the cover and reviews, but the first chapter, so you can check it out and see if you think it&#8217;s worth a read.  Until then, feel free to read the first chapters of the other four books, which are posted on each individual book page.  Click on &#8220;About this Book&#8221; under the covers to the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth Alafair book,Crying Blood, is at the printers now, and advance reading copies have been sent to critics and to some well-known mystery authors for review and, we hope, a cover quote. My editor received the first attribution on Friday from the great Margaret Maron. This will definitely be on the cover (which I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writer-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2H58s-3o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}