{"id":40383,"date":"2023-04-07T07:09:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40383"},"modified":"2023-04-07T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:09:48","slug":"twisted-tropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/04\/07\/twisted-tropes\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Tropes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"40384\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/04\/07\/twisted-tropes\/twistedtropescweb-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TwistedTropesCweb-1.jpg?fit=500%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TwistedTropesCweb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TwistedTropesCweb-1.jpg?fit=500%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TwistedTropesCweb-1.jpg?resize=500%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TwistedTropesCweb-1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TwistedTropesCweb-1.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twisted Tropes<\/strong>, a collection of short stories by eight authors that I recently designed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Things are never what they seem, and on the other side of this cover, what you know isn&#8217;t so!<\/p>\n<p>Plunge into eight tales of that will feel familiar, only to careen through more twists than a country road at night, and stranger turns:<\/p>\n<p>From noir private eyes to the cookies of the dark side, you&#8217;ll find a surprise in every story!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0C1L3K82Q?&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=nobaskme-20&amp;linkId=dd9db092c2e93df5fbe2a08c865041ab&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> in paperback or on Kindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twisted Tropes, a collection of short stories by eight authors that I recently designed. Things are never what they seem, and on the other side of this cover, what you know isn&#8217;t so! Plunge into eight tales of that will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/04\/07\/twisted-tropes\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3949],"tags":[3306,4228,5603,5604,4469,5601,3077,5600,5602,4229],"class_list":["post-40383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-design","tag-book-design","tag-cedar-sanderson","tag-christopher-markman","tag-dorothy-grant","tag-e-book-design","tag-ethan-whisnand","tag-j-l-curtis","tag-monalisa-foster","tag-rhiain-oconnell","tag-tom-rogneby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-avl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33933,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/02\/28\/burnt-ends\/","url_meta":{"origin":40383,"position":0},"title":"Burnt Ends","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"February 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Burnt Ends is a collection of eight short stories written by J.L. 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