{"id":1055,"date":"2025-11-03T08:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:46:57","slug":"its-time-for-dead-hand-rule-max-gladstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/its-time-for-dead-hand-rule-max-gladstone\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s time for \u2018Dead Hand Rule\u2019!\u201d &#8211; Max Gladstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cBut this is also the moment my engagement starts to tail off as a portion of the book\u2019s\u2026 life in the world? Let\u2019s say the book takes eight hours to read from cover to cover; if even one thousand readers finish it, that\u2019s about four years of full time work, unless I fudged my math somewhere. I will, of course, read at readings, appear at appearances, and sign copies at signings, I will show up for my own work on social media, and most of all I will pledge myself to the keyboard as I write the next and final book in the Series. But so much of the book\u2019s life now is out there, with you, rather than in here: it\u2019s going out to be read, talked about, traded, borrowed from the library, left behind at youth hostels (that\u2019s how I found my first Wild Cards book!), dog-eared and coffee-stained and in the world\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxgladstone.substack.com\/p\/its-time-for-dead-hand-rule\">https:\/\/maxgladstone.substack.com\/p\/its-time-for-dead-hand-rule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut this is also the moment my engagement starts to tail off as a portion of the book\u2019s\u2026 life in the world? Let\u2019s say the book takes eight hours to read from cover to cover; if even one thousand readers finish it, that\u2019s about four years of full time work, unless I fudged my math&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}