{"id":548,"date":"2009-10-15T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/thomas-nelson.html"},"modified":"2009-10-15T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T01:20:00","slug":"thomas-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/thomas-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/StZ6F4BJZLI\/AAAAAAAAC-o\/U1nzWtg1iMM\/s1600-h\/pens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/StZ6F4BJZLI\/AAAAAAAAC-o\/U1nzWtg1iMM\/s400\/pens.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392631845177877682\" \/><\/a><br \/>I just found out yesterday that Thomas Nelson will start offering self-publishing packages under their Westbow imprint. I have mixed feelings about this for various reasons. I&#8217;ve been reading about this on blogs all day. I don&#8217;t talk about industry topics on my blog much, but this has been heavy on my mind for the last 24 hours! I&#8217;m not a Thomas Nelson author, but, geez, this is a big deal to me&#8230;and to others! Here&#8217;s a few blog posts about the topic, but, beware, there are tons of comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/cba-ramblings.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/major-publisher-opens-subsidy.html\">Rachelle&#8217;s blog <\/a>about this&#8230;over 100!! Sandra Bishop, an agent with Macgregor Literary, <a href=\"http:\/\/chipmacgregor.typepad.com\/main\/2009\/10\/so-selfpublishing-is-the-new-black.html\">blogged about it <\/a>today, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d ask what do you think about this, but, I believe all has been said on the other blog posts!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chesapeake-Weddings-Romancing-America-Cecelia\/dp\/1602608024\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1253149065&#038;sr=8-2\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out yesterday that Thomas Nelson will start offering self-publishing packages under their Westbow imprint. I have mixed feelings about this for various reasons. I&#8217;ve been reading about this on blogs all day. I don&#8217;t talk about industry topics on my blog much, but this has been heavy on my mind for the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thomas-nelson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-8Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}