{"id":22,"date":"2007-10-23T20:12:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T20:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-10-23T20:13:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T20:13:55","slug":"heart-of-the-ronin-new-novel-in-spring-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/heart-of-the-ronin-new-novel-in-spring-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart of the Ronin &#8211; New Novel in Spring &#8217;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since this is my blog, I am quite happy to use it to toot my own horn.<\/p>\n<p>It is with great satisfaction that I announce my next publication.  My novel, <em>Heart of the Ronin<\/em> will be published in hardcover in Spring 2009 by Five Star Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>More information on this will likely appear in this ol&#8217; Groove in the months and weeks to come, but you heard it here first!<\/p>\n<p>And oh, yeah, the novel in a nutshell.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first novel in <em>The Ronin Trilogy.  <\/em>In a nutshell, it is <em>Excalibur <\/em>meets <em>The Seven Samurai.  <\/em>John Boorman meets Akira Kurosawa<em>.<\/em>  I call it &#8220;historical fantasy.&#8221;  The story is set in medieval Japan, when gods and creatures of folklore and myth were as real as the village down the road. Underworld crime bosses, bloodthirsty demons, samurai lords, beautiful maidens, and Mongol hordes.  Oh, yeah, you know you&#8217;ll want to read this!<\/p>\n\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%2F2007%2F10%2F23%2Fheart-of-the-ronin-new-novel-in-spring-09%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>Since this is my blog, I am quite happy to use it to toot my own horn. It is with great satisfaction that I announce my next publication. My novel, Heart of the Ronin will be published in hardcover in Spring 2009 by Five Star Publishing. More information on this will likely appear in this ol&#8217; Groove in the months and weeks to come, but you heard it here first! And oh, yeah, the novel in a nutshell. This will be the first novel in The Ronin Trilogy. In a nutshell, it is Excalibur meets The Seven Samurai. John Boorman<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/heart-of-the-ronin-new-novel-in-spring-09\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heart of the Ronin &#8211; New Novel in Spring &#8217;09<\/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":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-writing"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:35:28","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\/22","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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}