{"id":5489,"date":"2014-02-20T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2014-02-20T08:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:30:55","slug":"the-boosting-the-signal-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/20\/the-boosting-the-signal-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boosting the Signal Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna&#8217;s new &#8220;Boosting the Signal&#8221; project features authors&#8217; <em>characters<\/em> delivering confessionals about their <em>goals<\/em> in upcoming <em>novels<\/em> which feature them.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty high concept and <em>very<\/em> meta. I like it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also partly a response to <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/collection-the-sfwa-sexism-and-racism-posts\/\">all the various repeated flaps around SFWA last year, and the petition-to-SFWA this year<\/a>. That whole thing about <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/what-is-being-lost\/\">starting your own amusement park<\/a>? Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, she&#8217;s just published <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.angelahighland.com\/2014\/02\/18\/boosting-the-signal-updates\/\">the first list of guest appearances<\/a>. It starts February 28th, with Anna Kashina. She mentioned being already booked through April; should be interesting to follow that as it unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>On a not at all unrelated note, I floated something similar with musicians last year. Maybe I should try that again &#8211; I just need a snappy organising concept. Got any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna&#8217;s new &#8220;Boosting the Signal&#8221; project features authors&#8217; characters delivering confessionals about their goals in upcoming novels which feature them. That&#8217;s pretty high concept and very meta. I like it. It&#8217;s also partly a response to all the various repeated flaps around SFWA last year, and the petition-to-SFWA this year. That whole thing about starting [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-peoples-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}