{"id":4943,"date":"2014-07-05T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2014-07-05T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T15:59:36","slug":"only-one-month-until-blood-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"Only one month until BLOOD GAMES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s July 5, which means we&#8217;re only ONE MONTH away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?page_id=3506\">August 5, 2014 release of BLOOD GAMES<\/a>, the 10th Chicagoland Vampires novel! I&#8217;ll be signing BLOOD GAMES at events in <a title=\"Events\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?page_id=751\">Omaha (NE), Oak Brook (IL), and Racine (WI).\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check back on Monday, July 7, when the BLOOD GAMES preorder contest will begin! The prizes?\u00a0I&#8217;ll be giving away two engraved Cadogan House medals, just like these:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4944\" alt=\"icm_fullxfull.8092587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/icm_fullxfull.8092587-600x500.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/icm_fullxfull.8092587-600x500.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/icm_fullxfull.8092587-300x250.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/icm_fullxfull.8092587.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because it relates to the US release of BLOOD GAMES, this contest is only US preorders*. But no worries, there will be a second contest in a few weeks for medals open to international readers!!<\/p>\n<p>xoxo, Chloe<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* &#8211;\u00a0Why do preorders matter? \u00a0Because they\u2019re lumped in together with first week sales. \u00a0That final number is a publisher\u2019s first and primary indication of book success\u2013which is how they evaluate the author and the series. Those initial sales also drive NYT and USA Today bestseller status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s July 5, which means we&#8217;re only ONE MONTH away from the August 5, 2014 release of BLOOD GAMES, the 10th Chicagoland Vampires novel! I&#8217;ll be signing BLOOD GAMES at events in Omaha (NE), Oak Brook (IL), and Racine (WI).\u00a0 Check back on Monday, July 7, when the BLOOD GAMES preorder contest will begin! The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=4943\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blood-games","category-chicagoland-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4955,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}