{"id":368,"date":"2020-11-25T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markshawbooks.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2020-11-26T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T01:31:58","slug":"help-for-aspiring-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/help-for-aspiring-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Help for Aspiring Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">To inspire and encourage aspiring authors regarding how to build a career as a published author, I have recently videotaped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markshawbooks.com\/assets\/video\/Mark-Shaw-Books-presentation-2020-09-20.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Accidental Author: A Retrospective of my Body of Work,\u201d<\/a> an inside look at my journey from book #1 in 1992 to nearly thirty books published to date. Bottom line: If someone like me who took nearly six years to get through college and had no training as a writer but whose books will now be part of the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2020\/Q4\/purdue-archives-acquires-alumnus-and-bestselling-author-mark-shaws-body-of-work-touching-on-amelia-earhart,-dorothy-kilgallen-connection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purdue University archives<\/a>, can do it, so can anyone with a plan to succeed based on a competent strategy and hard work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To inspire and encourage aspiring authors regarding how to build a career as a published author, I have recently videotaped \u201cThe Accidental Author: A Retrospective of my Body of Work,\u201d an inside look at my journey from book #1 in &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/help-for-aspiring-authors\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markshawbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}