{"id":452,"date":"2006-10-04T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/10\/04\/the-agony-column\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:50:00","slug":"the-agony-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/10\/04\/the-agony-column\/","title":{"rendered":"The Agony Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>Rick Kleffel has posted a brief <a href=\"http:\/\/trashotron.com\/agony\/news\/2006\/10-02-06.htm#100406\">interview<\/a> with me over at <a href=\"http:\/\/trashotron.com\/agony\/\">The Agony Column<\/a>. If you\u2019re not already a regular visitor there, definitely check it out. I\u2019m not sure how Rick keeps his fingers on the pulse of everything in literary sf\/f, but he does. His site\u2019s diverse, it\u2019s informative, and it\u2019s a must-visit on my bookmark list every day or so.<\/p>\n<p>The interview was conducted shortly after the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&amp;isbn=1932265163&amp;itm=1\">COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO<\/a> back in May\/June. With that in mind, a couple of quick addendums: I mentioned that I was doing a cover for a new edition of Robert Silverberg\u2019s SON OF MAN from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrsf.com\/\">Pyr<\/a>. Pyr has pushed back that release for now, so I\u2019ll return to that work when they\u2019re ready. Just a bit of schedule-shuffling, so the release is a matter of \u201cwhen,\u201d not \u201cif\u201d. I also mentioned in the interview that I was sketching the cover for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisroberson.net\/ramble.html\">Chris Roberson\u2019s<\/a> forthcoming X-MEN: THE RETURN. The finished art is pictured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpicacio.com\/2006\/08\/x-men-return.html\">here<\/a> if you haven\u2019t seen it already, and the finished mass market paperback releases from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsays.com\/content\/destination.cfm?sid=33&amp;pid=427726\">Simon &amp; Schuster\/Pocket<\/a> in May 2007.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Kleffel has posted a brief interview with me over at The Agony Column. If you\u2019re not already a regular visitor there, definitely check it out. I\u2019m not sure how Rick keeps his fingers on the pulse of everything in literary sf\/f, but he does. His site\u2019s diverse, it\u2019s informative, and it\u2019s a must-visit on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-7i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}