{"id":2728,"date":"2017-12-31T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2017-12-31T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T17:10:54","slug":"a-novel-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/a-novel-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A Novel Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to let 2017 close out without one last look at some of the press about my signature accomplishment of the year: my novel, <em>Walking On The Sea of Clouds<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Readers have called it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Faithful and gritty&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Amazingly authentic&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Meat and potatoes for the hard science fiction fan&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;As entertaining as some of Heinlein\u2019s early fiction&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Much like <em>The Martian<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not too shabby.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read it, thank you very much! If you&#8217;d like to, or know someone else who might enjoy it, you can get your local bookseller to order it for you or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2j3eUt1\">buy it on Amazon<\/a> or from other online sources including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/walking-on-the-sea-of-clouds.html\">Baen e-books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/img\/covers\/books\/WotSoC-FrontCoverScreenshot.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/img\/covers\/books\/WotSoC-FrontCoverScreenshot-tiny.png\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagecaption\" style=\"font-size: 50%;\"><em>A novel of survival and sacrifice among lunar pioneers. (Click for larger image.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The novel was, without a doubt, the &#8220;big event&#8221; of 2017 for me. 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