{"id":3650,"date":"2015-09-02T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2020-11-21T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T15:21:58","slug":"my-mentee-for-pitch-wars-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=3650","title":{"rendered":"My Mentee for Pitch Wars 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Brenda Drake surprised all the Pitch Wars participants by announcing the mentors&#8217; picks early, and it was so much fun watching my new mentee celebrating on Twitter and getting so excited!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-sv3BcYd-Txo\/VedI-dFf6VI\/AAAAAAAAEUM\/G3I3n3EPefs\/s1600\/mentee2015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-sv3BcYd-Txo\/VedI-dFf6VI\/AAAAAAAAEUM\/G3I3n3EPefs\/s1600\/mentee2015.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Er, oh yeah . . . everyone meet my new Pitch Wars mentee for 2015,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lynn-forrest.com\/\">Lynn Forrest<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Lynn is the author of a nifty urban fantasy entitled THE MEASURE OF A MONSTER. It is a\u00a0<i>very\u00a0<\/i>odd pick for me because it includes both vampiric creatures and a sort of detective story, neither of which is generally my bag\u00a0<i>at all<\/i>. But there are a ton of reasons I picked it . . . and I&#8217;ll be able to discuss these more coherently after I&#8217;ve had some time to settle into editing the book. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite happy to be working with Lynn. And it really is a great feeling to make someone&#8217;s day (even though it meant I had to disappoint 91 other people), and because I think Lynn and I are really going to get along well. Before I knew if I was going to pick her, I definitely wanted to be pals based on her values and her interaction style. Making a new friend is always something to get excited about. (At least, if you&#8217;re me!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Brenda Drake surprised all the Pitch Wars participants by announcing the mentors&#8217; picks early, and it was so much fun watching my new mentee celebrating on Twitter and getting so excited! Er, oh yeah . . . everyone meet my new Pitch Wars mentee for 2015,\u00a0Lynn Forrest! Lynn is the author of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44,5],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-contests-2","category-news","tag-pitch-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}