{"id":11650,"date":"2012-12-10T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=11650"},"modified":"2017-08-02T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T17:06:18","slug":"if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-should-others-try-try-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-should-others-try-try-again\/","title":{"rendered":"If at First You Don’t Succeed… Should Others Try & Try Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"As the time nears when the first mystery novel by Susie is released, I thought I would post this entry asking you all for your opinions. [I should say that we know her as “Susie” but\u00a0A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate<\/a> (the first in her Lucy Campion Mystery Series – which is coming out in April) will be published using her more formal name – “Susanna”.<\/p>\n

Susie (Susanna Calkins)asked:<\/p>\n

“…\u00a0I’ve heard many writers struggle with the second book, especially when their first book was well received. I’d be so curious to know if readers usually like the\u00a0FIRST book in the series the best, or do they think it takes a few books for the author to hit his or her stride.<\/p>\n

…I’d love to hear everyone’s responses!”<\/p>\n

Please feel free to post a comment with your opinion. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the time nears when the first mystery novel by Susie is released, I thought I would post this entry asking you all for your opinions. [I should say that we know her as “Susie” but\u00a0A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate (the first in her Lucy Campion Mystery Series – which is coming out in April) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"category-cozy-site-readers-question","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-31U","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33846,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions\/33846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}