{"id":588,"date":"2014-11-23T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T21:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:03","slug":"a-friend-who-writes-good-books-gives-them-away-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/author-novelist\/books-and-novels\/a-friend-who-writes-good-books-gives-them-away-free\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friend Who Writes Good Books &#038; Gives Them Away Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mgddasef.blogspot.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MarvaDasef.jpg\" alt=\"author Marva Dasef\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/QuestForTheSimurgh-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Quest for the Simurgh, a YA Fantasy Adventure Thriller\" width=\"150\" height=\"209\" \/>I have a friend, and she writes books&#8211;lots of books. Her name is Marva Dasef, and she calls herself The Cellophane Queen&#8230;because nobody seems to notice her or how good her books are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why is that I wonder?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s not as though she doesn&#8217;t have a very strong online presence and thousands of followers on FB, G+ and all those other social networks. It&#8217;s not as though she doesn&#8217;t have multiples of books available in every known format from dead tree print to audio to every possible variety and kind of eBook platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And she&#8217;s got good ranking on Amazon, to boot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But, gee, I guess nobody much is&#8230;what? Into magic and mystery and adventure stories for middle graders? Likes a good mystery written for adults? Or true stories of the Old West?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Really?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Really?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Try &#8217;em. You&#8217;ll like &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, Marva is offering her YA Fantasy adventure for free. It&#8217;s called Quest for the Simurgh, Faizah&#8217;s Destiny, and you can find it <strong>here<\/strong> at Amazon.com&#8211;&#8220;The gods are at war and only a farmer\u2019s daughter can save the world from Armageddon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend, and she writes books&#8211;lots of books. Her name is Marva Dasef, and she calls herself The Cellophane Queen&#8230;because nobody seems to notice her or how good her books are. Why is that I wonder? It&#8217;s not as though she doesn&#8217;t have a very strong online presence and thousands of followers on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[150,151,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}