{"id":70,"date":"2017-11-21T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2021-08-15T04:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T08:55:34","slug":"my-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/index.php\/my-books\/","title":{"rendered":"My Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Book of Weird<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Cover-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Cover-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Cover.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About: Book of Weird is a correct named collection of YA short stories. Put out when self-publishing was still relatively new, Book of Weird is a Coville-inspired book of trippy and illustrated tales intended to make its reader take pause and then judge, judge, judge. The idea is that weirdness is a fun and provocative trip towards exploration.<\/p>\n<p>With stories ranging from trolling cybersex would-be&#8217;s online, to second-rate genies who&#8217;ll question anyone&#8217;s definition of beauty,\u00a0 and giant purple worms who live off of love &#8212; BOW hits its mark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Weird-T-Hillerys-ebook\/dp\/B00COMBFSS\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1511321851&amp;sr=8-2-fkmr0&amp;keywords=book+of+weird+eric+t.+hillery\">(Link)<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cynicism<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BookCover-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BookCover-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BookCover.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It was just supposed to be a little recreational use but when a drug deal goes wrong, Luke and his best friend Chris find themselves needing to figure out what to do. The result, is a sordid tale set in the outskirts of NYC, which calls into question a whole different sense of ethics.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cynicism-Eric-Hillery-ebook\/dp\/B00DPK9FLW\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1511297348&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Cynicism+Eric+Hillery\">(Link)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This novella is based on the idea of an ethical side of a decision being the losing one. Some lessons are less easy in hindsight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m working on today:<br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>1) Science fiction novel based in a possible future Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2) Quarter-life crisis protagonist quits his job to become a break-out DJ. Discovers a dad-killing secret society with a penultimate cosmic conspiracy that explains dubstep.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book of Weird About: Book of Weird is a correct named collection of YA short stories. Put out when self-publishing was still relatively new, Book of Weird is a Coville-inspired book of trippy and illustrated tales intended to make its reader take pause and then judge, judge, judge. The idea is that weirdness is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethillery.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}