{"id":1925,"date":"2026-03-29T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:09:06","slug":"the-kindness-of-strangers-inevitable-delays-and-easter-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/the-kindness-of-strangers-inevitable-delays-and-easter-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindness of Strangers, Inevitable Delays and Easter Eggs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;re a novelist but unable to give up the &#8216;day job&#8217; (yet), then you&#8217;ll know all about the inevitable delays that surround any event, but particularly that new novel launch, when you&#8217;re relying on friends to make those final proof or artwork adjustments &amp; get back to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their time is valuable too, and you&#8217;ve just added another &#8216;ask&#8217; to their already hectic lives. So you have to be prepared for your own time-frame of how you see things progressing, to go completely out of the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, choosing to publish your next novel amidst the busiest season for an online fine chocolate retailer, is guaranteed, as sure as eggs is eggs, to present timing problems of a whole new level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All you can do is relax&#8230; get everything ready your side, so when those updated images or files arrive, you can move without delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing more valuable than a friend, who understands what you&#8217;re trying to achieve with your novel&#8217;s cover artwork, and having the tools and the patience to produce exactly what you had envisaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it is with my latest action &amp; adventure novel &#8211; Price: Dark Crater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like those brave Astronauts that orbited the Moon and remarked that it was so close, they could almost reach out and touch it. It&#8217;s coming my friends&#8230; It&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Price: Dark Crater &#8211; the 3rd Dr Adam Price Adventure novel by me, Jonathan C. Crouch, will be touching down very soon now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a novelist but unable to give up the &#8216;day job&#8217; (yet), then you&#8217;ll know all about the inevitable delays that surround any event, but particularly that new novel launch, when you&#8217;re relying on friends to make those final proof or artwork adjustments &amp; get back to you. Their time is valuable too, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[139,140,86,113,138,142,141,143],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author","category-publishing","tag-bookcover","tag-coverartwork","tag-indieauthor","tag-price-dark-crater","tag-selfpublishing","tag-spaceadventure","tag-teenfiction","tag-youthfiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priceworldnovel.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}