{"id":3057,"date":"2014-09-12T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2014-09-15T23:08:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T04:08:49","slug":"about-my-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3057","title":{"rendered":"About My Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a short update. I just want you look above this post at  &#8220;My Picks.&#8221; All of these are books that can be purchased in digital versions for 99 cents to $3.99. These are all books that I think are swell.  The genres and styles vary. More than a couple I wrote. Most I didn&#8217;t write. They have another thing in common. They are all &#8220;indie&#8221; books. By indie I mean self-published, even if the writers listed their own personal &#8220;imprints&#8221; as the publisher. If you&#8217;ve never (knowingly) read or purchased a self-published book before because you think they are all crap, any of these books will prove your assumptions wrong.  Just click on a couple till you find one with a description that interests you. Then read the sample and decide for yourself if it&#8217;s worth investing less money than you spend on Starbucks. It&#8217;s that simple. If you don&#8217;t own a Kindle machine, you can read it on a device you do own. If you still hate reading fiction electronically, most are available in paperback (although print versions will cost more.) You are a smart cookie. You don&#8217;t need any filters beyond my recommendation and a sample to decide if a book is for you. I&#8217;ll change up my picks periodically, but I&#8217;m committing to only listing sp books because I keep reading online that they suck. 99.5% of what people put up on the Kindle is pretty awful, but it&#8217;s not difficult to find the fraction that is actually good. Just check out my picks.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: In addition to the royalties I get if you actually pick a book I wrote, I will get some loose change from Amazon through their Associates Program if you buy anything from them within 24 hours of clicking &#8220;my picks&#8221;. This does not mean they own me. It&#8217;s more like the relationship you have to the homeless guy who hangs out in front of your favorite bodega. Sometimes you give him a dollar, but he still may rant about how you are the devil from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a short update. I just want you look above this post at &#8220;My Picks.&#8221; All of these are books that can be purchased in digital versions for 99 cents to $3.99. These are all books that I think are swell. The genres and styles vary. More than a couple I wrote. Most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3057\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About My Picks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}