{"id":37848,"date":"2022-06-14T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=37848"},"modified":"2022-06-14T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:50:12","slug":"magic-employed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/14\/magic-employed\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Employed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37849\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/14\/magic-employed\/meweb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MEweb.jpg?fit=500%2C876&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,876\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"MEweb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MEweb.jpg?fit=500%2C876&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37849\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MEweb.jpg?resize=400%2C701&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MEweb.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MEweb.jpg?resize=171%2C300&amp;ssl=1 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I designed the cover of a new novel by W.L. Emery which is now available on<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Magic-Employed-W-L-Emery-ebook\/dp\/B0B3HKL464\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ACM2DAEK2J46&amp;keywords=Magic+Employed+W.L.+Emery&amp;qid=1655182573&amp;sprefix=magic+employed+w.l.+emery%2Caps%2C42&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The itinerant wizard with the sesquipedalian vocabulary is back in another anthology of short stories. Accompanied by his traveling companion Mirrabelle, Otheldo encounters mermaids, a violent demon from another dimension, and an evil wizard who has enslaved an entire tribe of fiendishly powerful ape-men. The good news is that he&#8217;s employed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I designed the cover of a new novel by W.L. Emery which is now available on Amazon: &#8220;The itinerant wizard with the sesquipedalian vocabulary is back in another anthology of short stories. Accompanied by his traveling companion Mirrabelle, Otheldo encounters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/14\/magic-employed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3949],"tags":[3306,5359],"class_list":["post-37848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-design","tag-book-design","tag-w-l-emery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9Qs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10326,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/31\/pinball-wizard\/","url_meta":{"origin":37848,"position":0},"title":"Pinball Wizard","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"October 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This year's exploration of coin operated machinery - a bowling themed pinball machine. 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