{"id":273,"date":"2005-02-08T02:16:13","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/273"},"modified":"2005-02-08T02:16:13","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T02:16:13","slug":"atlanta-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/273","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely hack pointed out to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/mdlbear\/197642.html?mode=reply\">mdlbear<\/a> \u2014 a &#8220;worst novel ever&#8221; written by some 30 SF writers &#038; editors as a part of a sting operation to out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishamerica.com\/\">Publish America<\/a> as a vanity press. Some links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Description of <a href=\"http:\/\/critters.critique.org\/sting\/\">the Sting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2005\/1\/prweb202277.htm\">Press release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embiid.net\/books\/books.asp?S=793743625&#038;P=331&#038;C=0\">Free eBook copy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/travis-tea\">Real ink-smeared-on-dead-trees version<\/a> (NOT published by PublishAmerica)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/05\/02\/06\/0323218.shtml\">The Slashdot discussion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely hack pointed out to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/mdlbear\/197642.html?mode=reply\">mdlbear<\/a> \u2014 a &#8220;worst novel ever&#8221; written by some 30 SF writers &#038; editors as a part of a sting operation to out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishamerica.com\/\">Publish America<\/a> as a vanity press. Some links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Description of <a href=\"http:\/\/critters.critique.org\/sting\/\">the Sting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2005\/1\/prweb202277.htm\">Press release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embiid.net\/books\/books.asp?S=793743625&#038;P=331&#038;C=0\">Free eBook copy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/travis-tea\">Real ink-smeared-on-dead-trees version<\/a> (NOT published by PublishAmerica)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/05\/02\/06\/0323218.shtml\">The Slashdot discussion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}