{"id":2258,"date":"2012-09-29T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2012-09-29T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T14:49:08","slug":"mind-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/mind-the-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind the Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2260\" title=\"EnclaveView\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/EnclaveView.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/>The short gap between Books 1 and 2 of the <em>Birthmarked<\/em> trilogy lasts about two weeks, but the break between Books 2 and 3 lasts nearly a year.\u00a0 The main reason I let so much time pass is because the action at the end of Book 2\/<em>Prized<\/em> was leading into a lot of grueling, painstaking work, not dramatic problems.\u00a0 Tension and negotiations were likely, and plenty of quiet, happy scenes, but a book needs real conflict and these productive episodes wouldn\u2019t have had enough.\u00a0 So I skipped ahead to when the real trouble picks up again and imagined where my characters would be.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad I did.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2216\" title=\"PromBlogTour100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/PromBlogTour100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"98\" \/>Today on the <em>Promised<\/em> Blog Tour, Kate and Kristen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookmonsters.com\/2012\/09\/author-interview-caragh-obrien-giveaway.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Book Monsters<\/a> ask me if <em>Promised<\/em> was harder to write than the other books in the trilogy, and why I chose to send Gaia back to the Enclave for the third book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short gap between Books 1 and 2 of the Birthmarked trilogy lasts about two weeks, but the break between Books 2 and 3 lasts nearly a year.\u00a0 The main reason I let so much time pass is because the action at the end of Book 2\/Prized was leading into a lot of grueling, painstaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,147],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthmarked","category-promised-2","tag-promised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}