{"id":7792,"date":"2015-03-29T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/29\/to-celebrate-surpassing-2000-followers-i-am\/"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T17:38:11","slug":"to-celebrate-surpassing-2000-followers-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/29\/to-celebrate-surpassing-2000-followers-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7792 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/29\/to-celebrate-surpassing-2000-followers-i-am\/attachment\/7793\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlzqi7pyHs1qm3ezso1_1280-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlzqi7pyHs1qm3ezso1_1280-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlzqi7pyHs1qm3ezso1_1280-2.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlzqi7pyHs1qm3ezso1_1280-2.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>To celebrate surpassing 2,000 followers, I am putting my<br \/>\nnovels on sale for 99 cents through April 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chasing-Wyrm-Christopher-Office-Affairs-ebook\/dp\/B00J0LNGSS\" target=\"_blank\">Chasing the Wyrm<\/a><\/i> is not as serious as <i>My Babylon<\/i>, but it was<br \/>\na hell of a lot of fun to write. I love urban fantasy and bad 80s action<br \/>\nmovies. The idea for this book came from watching <i>Die Hard<\/i>. The best explanation<br \/>\nI could find for how John McClain does what he does is that he\u2019s a wizard. It<br \/>\nhas its serious side too. I\u2019ve always bemoaned how urban fantasy is politically<br \/>\nna\u00efve. I wanted to fix that.<\/p>\n<p>Get the ebook on Amazon for 99 cents. Also available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chasing-Wyrm-Christopher-Office-Affairs\/dp\/1497515130\" target=\"_blank\">in<br \/>\nprint. Buy the print edition<\/a> and receive the Kindle edition for free.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chasing-Wyrm-Christopher-Office-Affairs-ebook\/dp\/B00J0LNGSS\" target=\"_blank\">Chasing the Wyrm: Christopher Yan &#8211; Office of Arcane Affairs<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I work for the Office of Arcane Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>You have never heard of us.<\/p>\n<p>If the CIA finds out al-Qaeda has a guy who can bend spoons,<br \/>\nthey call the OAA, and they send me. When the Office of Naval Intelligence has<br \/>\nreports of a strange, giant, glowing squid, \u201cHey OAA, can Topher scuba dive?\u201d<br \/>\nAn infestation of rabid, gun-toting, were-jaguars in a South American jungle?<br \/>\nNo problem. Topher can fix it. Nothing worse than spooked spooks who don\u2019t have<br \/>\na clue what they\u2019re dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s my job. Because being a wizard means I\u2019m the only<br \/>\none who can handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To protect its interests, the U.S. government projects its<br \/>\npower militarily, economically, and magically. It leaves the last to the Office<br \/>\nof Arcane Affairs. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Yan didn\u2019t ask for the job. A wizard born with<br \/>\nthe power to warp reality, the OAA calls on him to neutralize all arcane<br \/>\nthreats. Part spy, part fixer, part assassin, Topher searches for a way to make<br \/>\nhis unique gift serve both his country and his principles. When he makes an<br \/>\nenemy of a rogue wizard serving a dying insurgency, he learns the limits his<br \/>\nconscience can bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate surpassing 2,000 followers, I am putting my novels on sale for 99 cents through April 3rd. Chasing the Wyrm is not as serious as My Babylon, but it was a hell of a lot of fun to write. I love urban fantasy and bad 80s action movies. The idea for this book came &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/29\/to-celebrate-surpassing-2000-followers-i-am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,172],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chasing-the-wyrm","tag-james-l-wilber","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7794,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}