{"id":8736,"date":"2015-02-13T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8736"},"modified":"2015-02-13T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:26:00","slug":"state-of-the-trout-forums-and-free-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8736","title":{"rendered":"State of The Trout: Forums and Free Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I said not to expect much from the blog this week, but I&#8217;ve got just a few little things I want to go over, and one big thing:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I will not be seeing 50 Shades of Grey this weekend.<\/strong>\u00a0I will be seeing it on Tuesday. I&#8217;m just announcing this to cut back on the social media questions re: if I&#8217;m going to see it or not. I have no desire to see this movie in a theatre packed with actual fans of the books.<\/p>\n<p><b>I&#8217;ve update the appearances page.<\/b>\u00a0Click on &#8220;Meet Me!&#8221; in the menu to see where I&#8217;m going to be. If I&#8217;m in your area, stop by!<\/p>\n<p><b>Did you know I wrote a free erotic romance that will cleanse your palate after\u00a0<em>50 Shades of Grey<\/em>?\u00a0<\/b>If you&#8217;re just now joining us here in Trout Nation due to the rise in demand for\u00a0<em>50 Shades of Grey<\/em>\u00a0snark, you might be unaware that I wrote a BDSM-themed erotic romance series. The first book,\u00a0<em>The Boss<\/em>, is available for free on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Boss-Abigail-Barnette-ebook\/dp\/B00ENTIAJM\/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-boss-abigail-barnette\/1116782439?ean=9781493625482\">Barnes &amp; Noble,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/348970\">Smashwords.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Speaking of free reads, chapter 12 of <em>The Afflicted<\/em> is up on Wattpad.\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/103186598-the-afflicted-chapter-12\">You can read it here.<\/a>\u00a0Again, if you&#8217;re new, you can try out my writing for free.\u00a0<em>The Afflicted<\/em> is a New Adult horror serial.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/troutnation.freeforums.net\/\">There&#8217;s a new forum for ranting and discussion.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;m actually shocked that I didn&#8217;t think of this sooner, but I&#8217;ve had a handful of people ask for this and when I thought about it, it made sense to me. This is kind of a little community, and we like to talk about things. We like to talk about things so much, the comments section of some posts get a little hard to follow. So, I made a forum. You can get there by clicking that bolded link, or by the &#8220;forum&#8221; option in the menu bar.<\/p>\n<p>The boards listed came from the suggestions people asked for when they brought the idea up, then a general board for whatever the fuck you wanna gab about. If you think there&#8217;s a board that should be added, let me know and I&#8217;ll throw it in there if it doesn&#8217;t fit as a thread under one of the existing boards. The cool thing about this is, if a conversation thread is getting too long in the comments, you can opt to move it to a place where it&#8217;s readable.<\/p>\n<p>This is just something I&#8217;m trying out, if it doesn&#8217;t work, hey, we gave it a shot, twelve people who thought this was a good idea! I&#8217;ll check in now and again to see how it&#8217;s going.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s back to the grind for me. Thanks to everyone who&#8217;s been linking people to my recaps and books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I said not to expect much from the blog this week, but I&#8217;ve got just a few little things I want to go&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8736\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of The Trout: Forums and Free Reading<\/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":[201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736"}],"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=8736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8738,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736\/revisions\/8738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}