{"id":1693,"date":"2012-02-14T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?page_id=1693"},"modified":"2015-04-15T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:29:54","slug":"interviews-and-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?page_id=1693","title":{"rendered":"Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not (and I often have a hard time believing it) there have been times that people ask me shit, and I give them answers. Some of the answers are even true (but&#8230;mostly not so much).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?attachment_id=1694\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1694\" title=\"i-have-many-reasons-to-smoke-98224-497-608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/i-have-many-reasons-to-smoke-98224-497-608-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> In September 2011, excellent thriller writer Al Boudreau interviewed me <a title=\"Interview Boudreau\" href=\"http:\/\/alboudreau.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/03\/an-interview-with-aj-aalto\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, after I won his &#8220;<a title=\"Horror in the Cage\" href=\"http:\/\/alboudreau.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/28\/horror-in-the-cage-the-battle-begins-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Horror in The Cage<\/a>&#8221; short story competition for August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in June 2011, pre-release (<em>that sounds filthy, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/em>) my friend Heather Goldie invaded my blog and used my Evil Author Interviews to try my patience&#8211;erm, I mean,<a title=\"heather's interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?m=20110617\" target=\"_blank\"> interview<\/a> me. It was mean. She used clowns. *pout*<\/p>\n<p>November 23, 2011 the charming Gordon Bonett of Tales of Whoa fame did a fabulous review of Touched, which you can check out <a title=\"Gordon's review\" href=\"http:\/\/gbfiction.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/book-review-touched.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. There were no clowns involved, and he was very kind. Probably because he&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon reviews\u00a0can be found <a title=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/AJ-Aalto\/e\/B005OKSXW8\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Thank you to the readers who have posted a review&#8211;not only do they help get the word out about the Marnie Baranuik Files and encourage others to read me, but they tickle this wee Writerghoulie in places she&#8217;s too ladylike to mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not (and I often have a hard time believing it) there have been times that people ask me shit, and I give them answers. Some of the answers are even true (but&#8230;mostly not so much). In September 2011, excellent thriller writer Al Boudreau interviewed me here, after I won his &#8220;Horror in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1693","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1693\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}