{"id":619,"date":"2014-05-10T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/retiring-my-first-edition-of-novel\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:48:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:48:58","slug":"retiring-my-first-edition-of-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/10\/retiring-my-first-edition-of-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"RETIRING MY FIRST EDITION OF NOVEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS&#8230;NEWS&#8230;NEWS<br \/>I will be retiring the first edition of both the print novel and its Kindle edition. &nbsp;It has served me well but, sigh, we must improve. &nbsp;So, the reason behind this decision is rather simple, the novel, as you well know, has a new, revamped and greatly improved cover. &nbsp;Come on, let&#8217;s face it, I created the first cover and I am NOT a graphic designer. &nbsp;Scott, however, is and did a super AWESOME job.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are familiar with the OLD cover (see below),<br \/>from now on it will be this cover (see below as well).<\/p>\n<p>If ever in doubt, since technology can oftentimes trump us (especially me), always search under my complete full name (I know, it IS a mouthful): &nbsp;Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra. &nbsp;For those who don&#8217;t want to type too much, simply copy and paste my name from above.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cover1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cover1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">OLD COVER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TheCoin_small-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TheCoin_small-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">NEW, GREATLY IMPROVED COVER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS&#8230;NEWS&#8230;NEWSI will be retiring the first edition of both the print novel and its Kindle edition. &nbsp;It has served me well but, sigh, we must improve. &nbsp;So, the reason behind this decision is rather simple, the novel, as you well know, has a new, revamped and greatly improved cover. &nbsp;Come on, let&#8217;s face it, I &#8230; <a title=\"RETIRING MY FIRST EDITION OF NOVEL\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/10\/retiring-my-first-edition-of-novel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RETIRING MY FIRST EDITION OF NOVEL\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}