{"id":6017,"date":"2013-09-06T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2013-09-06T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T15:17:28","slug":"state-of-the-trout-and-a-few-things-that-will-make-50-shades-haters-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=6017","title":{"rendered":"State of The Trout, and a few things that will make 50 Shades haters smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello out there in Troutnation! I&#8217;m super hard at work on revisions for <em>Such Sweet Sorrow<\/em>, because those are due on September 15th. I&#8217;m also working on\u00a0<em>The Bride,\u00a0<\/em>as well as a new vampire book (because watching all this Buffy got my mind working about non-glittery vampires for a minute). Someone asked about\u00a0<em>Roadhouse<\/em> in the last 50 Shades recap, so to update you on the status there, we were pretty busy with IRL junk, so we took a little break. And then an unexpected, yet totally awesome, new complication arose: D-Rock is going to college! She started last week and she&#8217;s super excited, but unfortunately, full-time classes don&#8217;t leave a lot of time for bullshitting into a camera about random topics. We hope to continue in the future, but we don&#8217;t have a set date.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, stuff that will make you 50 Shades haters smile:<\/p>\n<p><strong>This comment left on the chapter 22 recap:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/comment.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6018\" alt=\"comment\" src=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/comment.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>Of all the ridiculous casting petitions out there demanding new leads for the 50 Shades movie&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/we-want-burt-reynolds-and-dolly-parton-as\/\">This one is my favorite.<\/a>\u00a0(Hey guys, I&#8217;m seeing this petition being attributed to me on twitter, but it&#8217;s not mine. I should have made that more clear. It belongs to @Americasbaby1. Introduce yourself on twitter and become tweeps and soul mates for all time!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>And finally<\/strong>, remember how yesterday I was all, &#8220;<em>The Boss<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>is free on Amazon!&#8221; Well, funny thing happens, when you give away the first book in a series as a freebie, and the sequel is already available. It makes the sequel sell better. And then&#8230; something happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Here is a screen shot from Amazon.co.uk&#8217;s erotic adult fiction Kindle store:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/amazonuk1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6019\" alt=\"amazonuk1\" src=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/amazonuk1.jpg\" width=\"519\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">and here is another screenshot from the same store, same hour:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/amazonuk2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6020\" alt=\"amazonuk2\" src=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/amazonuk2.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Now, <i>obviously<\/i>\u00a0I&#8217;m not saying\u00a0<em>The Girlfriend<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>is outselling\u00a0<em>50 Shades Darker<\/em>. I mean, that&#8217;s not even the ebook version of\u00a0<em>50 Shades Darker<\/em>, it&#8217;s the audiobook. But I thought you guys would get a kick out of knowing that\u00a0<em>The Girlfriend<\/em> was ranked higher than\u00a0<em>something<\/em>\u00a050 Shades, at least for an hour. And thank you to the UK readers who bought\u00a0<em>The Girlfriend<\/em> and pushed it up in the ranks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello out there in Troutnation! I&#8217;m super hard at work on revisions for Such Sweet Sorrow, because those are due on September 15th. I&#8217;m also&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=6017\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of The Trout, and a few things that will make 50 Shades haters smile<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}