{"id":1887,"date":"2021-09-09T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2021-09-09T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T15:46:21","slug":"heart-of-the-ronin-back-in-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/09\/heart-of-the-ronin-back-in-print\/","title":{"rendered":"HEART OF THE RONIN Back in Print"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s done. All files are submitted to distributors and printers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Heart of the Ronin<\/em> is now&#8211;twelve years after it&#8217;s first publication with Five Star, then E-Reads, then Open Road&#8211;back in print, but under the Bear Paw imprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems like such a long road from that initial Five Star edition. It was such a beautiful book. But, oh how times have changed in the publishing industry, and what a tortuous path this book has trekked upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spiffed it up with new interior illustrations by Alan M. Clark, AND I put back in all the beautiful calligraphy that hachi-dan calligraphy master Naoko Ikeda did for me, which the last two publishers omitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m so excited to offer this new edition that for a limited time I&#8217;ve slashed the e-book price to $2.99 everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trade paperback is available on Amazon right now, but will be percolating through other distribution channels over the next few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 4.5 stars and 167 reviews to date, you can&#8217;t go wrong by grabbing yourself a copy wherever you love to get your next literary adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/4EKp9o\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"896\" src=\"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cover_HeartOfTheRonin_flat_rgb_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cover_HeartOfTheRonin_flat_rgb_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cover_HeartOfTheRonin_flat_rgb_600-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cover_HeartOfTheRonin_flat_rgb_600-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ftravisheermann.com%2Fblog%2F2021%2F09%2F09%2Fheart-of-the-ronin-back-in-print%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s done. All files are submitted to distributors and printers. Heart of the Ronin is now&#8211;twelve years after it&#8217;s first publication with Five Star, then E-Reads, then Open Road&#8211;back in print, but under the Bear Paw imprint. It seems like such a long road from that initial Five Star edition. It was such a beautiful book. But, oh how times have changed in the publishing industry, and what a tortuous path this book has trekked upon. I spiffed it up with new interior illustrations by Alan M. Clark, AND I put back in all the beautiful calligraphy that hachi-dan calligraphy<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/09\/heart-of-the-ronin-back-in-print\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HEART OF THE RONIN Back in Print<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:36:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}