{"id":2774,"date":"2012-01-27T12:37:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2012-01-27T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T22:23:13","slug":"friday-work-in-progress-home-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=2774","title":{"rendered":"Friday Work In Progress: Home Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/goodreads_process07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2759 alignright\" title=\"goodreads_process07\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/goodreads_process07.jpg?resize=200%2C267\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/goodreads_process07.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/goodreads_process07.jpg?resize=112%2C150&amp;ssl=1 112w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve written a short story! A <strong><em>non-comic book<\/em><\/strong> short story! A non-comic book <em><strong>gay contemporary romance*<\/strong><\/em> short story! It&#8217;s called <strong>Home Port<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the promo blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After months at sea, Petty Officer First Class Dean Mendez is back in San Diego, and he knows <em>exactly<\/em> how he wants to spend his first night home. Is the beautiful boy he finds on a nightclub dance floor the perfect companion for the evening, or is he much more?<\/p>\n<p>Short story, approximately 6000 words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is my first prose creative writing since high school. I&#8217;ve been editing the <em><strong>hell<\/strong><\/em> out of it, and my plan is to self-publish for a low price with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/\">Smashwords<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand whichever other on line stores I can figure out; Amazon perhaps\u00e2\u20ac\u201don or by February 14. (Because <strong>no one else<\/strong> is gonna be publishing romance on Valentine&#8217;s Day, right?) I&#8217;ll be posting more work in progress stuff here in the meantime. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><em>*Fair warning: this story will have f-words and man sex.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a short story! A non-comic book short story! A non-comic book gay contemporary romance* short story! It&#8217;s called Home Port! Here&#8217;s the promo blurb: After months at sea, Petty Officer First Class Dean Mendez is back in San &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=2774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25PVe-IK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}