{"id":1002,"date":"2011-07-19T18:54:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T23:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2011-07-26T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:30:47","slug":"touched-will-grope-you-soon-like-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Touched … (Will Grope You Soon, Like it Or Not)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My cover artist, the amazing Dustin Ashe, has been seriously injured and is all busted up and broken and stuff. I know, right? The poor cuddle-umpkins!!\u00a0By the sounds of it, he has accidentally mastered the unenviable yoga pose “Human Pretzel<\/strong>” (also see:\u00a0“Big-big Owies<\/strong>” and “OMGFORTHELOVEOFCHRISTHELPME<\/em><\/strong>“)<\/p>\n

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<Yup, I believe that’s the one….><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Dustin is\u00a0fantastic in every possible way–wait, that sounds like I know about his private bits, lemme rephrase–Dustin is probably<\/em> fantastic in every way, but I sure would have no clue about that. Nope. Noooooo sirree. Also:\u00a0he is superduper in every “gentlemanly” way *avoids eye contact* that it would be *plays with collar of shirt* *ahem* “ladylike” for me to know about. Cuz that’s what I am. Ladylike. Totally (K,<\/em> I think they probably bought that, D, it’s all good<\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0He’s a gifted writer, and crushingly talented artist and an all-around awesome guy full of spirit, optimism and ambition. I\u00a0have my heart set on his work, and refuse to have any other artist do my covers.<\/p>\n

For the above reasons, the elaunch of Touched<\/strong> is postponed until\u00a0FrankenArtist can catch up on work. I’m hoping the paper launch will still go on as planned in October, but that’s a soft op at the moment. I’m not in a huge rush. Eventually, the world will have to\u00a0tolerate my screaming and bellowing “my book is out! my book is out!”,<\/em>\u00a0but you have a temporary respite from that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You’re supposed to send Dustin Get Well cards, not Thank You cards, smartasses. *unamused glare* Here’s my<\/em> Get Well Card Dustin … because you wouldn’t expect any other kind of card from moi …<\/p>\n

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NO WAIT!! That wasn’t the right one *guilty chuckle* OK, OK, here it is …<\/p>\n

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Right! That’s enough mushy talk out of me. Except to say I wuv your furry widdle face, D! Get better soon \ud83d\ude42 Anyhoo, this little writer will be back to the gutter tomorrow. Or whenever I drag my ass back to blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

(editor’s note: AJ Aalto says “Grab somebody sexy tell ’em hey!”) <\/embed><\/object><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My cover artist, the amazing Dustin Ashe, has been seriously injured and is all busted up and broken and stuff. I know, right? The poor cuddle-umpkins!!\u00a0By the sounds of it, he has accidentally mastered the unenviable yoga pose “Human Pretzel” (also see:\u00a0“Big-big Owies” and “OMGFORTHELOVEOFCHRISTHELPME“) <Yup, I believe that’s the one….> Dustin is\u00a0fantastic in every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}