{"id":2387,"date":"2017-01-18T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T11:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2017-01-17T22:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T03:45:24","slug":"did-you-know-or-have-you-not-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/did-you-know-or-have-you-not-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know? Or Have You Not Heard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, some friends told me they had listened to <em>Truths and Lies and Make-Believe<\/em>\u00a0while they were traveling recently, and wondered when I was going to do a new CD.<\/p>\n<p>Truth to tell, I had hoped to record a new CD this year &#8212; I&#8217;ve got a few scratch tracks down, and some more songs I haven&#8217;t quite worked up. If I managed it, and could get it released before the end of the year, then I&#8217;d have completed a new CD every two years since the first one.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of explaining that I don&#8217;t think I can make it happen this year, though, I realized that <strong>they didn&#8217;t know I already had a second CD out<\/strong> &#8230; even though it came out almost 18 months ago!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how bad I am at self-promotion.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"promotion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/platform4\/7420240204\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8162\/7420240204_264dca1e0a.jpg\" alt=\"promotion\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagecaption\" style=\"font-size: 50%;\"><em>Have you heard? Did you know? (Image: &#8220;promotion,&#8221; by Platform4, on Flickr under Creative Commons.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the reason for the question in the title. Did you know, or have you not heard, about these things? Then I really haven&#8217;t done my job, have I?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did you know about my first album of original music, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/album\/truths-and-lies-and-make-believe\">Truths and Lies and Make-Believe<\/a><\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>Did you know about my second, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/album\/distorted-vision\">Distorted Vision<\/a><\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>Did you know I have an <a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/author\/grayrinehart\">Amazon Author Page<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Did you know I released a new book late last year? It&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Quality-Education-Matters-Structure-Sustain-ebook\/dp\/B01N6APX0P\/\">Quality Education<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Did you know I have a newsletter? You can even <a href=\"http:\/\/mad.ly\/signups\/99761\/join\">subscribe to it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I try very hard not to beat people over the head with what I&#8217;ve done, but <em>clearly I could do a little better when even my friends are unaware of new releases<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So <strong>now you know<\/strong>. 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