{"id":3304,"date":"2016-06-01T18:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T23:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2016-06-01T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T23:21:32","slug":"smooth-sailin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=3304","title":{"rendered":"Smooth Sailin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the transition from author to publisher has been fairly smooth. I made a few goof-ups (amazingly small ones, considering this was all new to me). \u00a0Amazon, by the way, has been incredibly helpful and diligent to work with. I received an email checking that I indeed have the rights to publish several of my titles (glad they&#8217;re checking), and a polite gentleman named Jason K. from Kindle has been walking me through some fixes I had to do. All in all, they have made this transition relatively painless, and what mistakes I have made were great learning opportunities. Now I know not to do X, Y, or Z again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Thank-you-for-your-support-3-300x213.png\" alt=\"Thank you for your support (3)\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Thank-you-for-your-support-3-300x213.png 300w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Thank-you-for-your-support-3-190x135.png 190w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Thank-you-for-your-support-3-60x43.png 60w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Thank-you-for-your-support-3.png 559w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I estimate I should be back to early morning writing on Monday, bright and early at 4 A.M. to continue the Marnie Baranuik Files with the fifth book and fourth short story.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I&#8217;m pleased to introduce the initial staff at my new indie press, Pixiegrind Ink. (A quick note: Pixiegrind Ink is not yet open to submissions.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Welcome-Home-300x251.png\" alt=\"Welcome Home\" width=\"432\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Welcome-Home-300x251.png 300w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Welcome-Home-768x644.png 768w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Welcome-Home-190x159.png 190w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Welcome-Home-60x50.png 60w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Welcome-Home.png 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Onward and upward, all!<\/p>\n<p>AJ xo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the transition from author to publisher has been fairly smooth. I made a few goof-ups (amazingly small ones, considering this was all new to me). \u00a0Amazon, by the way, has been incredibly helpful and diligent to work with. I received an email checking that I indeed have the rights to publish several of [&hellip;]<\/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-3304","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\/3304"}],"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=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}