{"id":20008,"date":"2017-11-17T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=20008"},"modified":"2017-11-17T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T19:53:51","slug":"mrs-townsend-releases-debut-novel-the-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2017\/11\/17\/mrs-townsend-releases-debut-novel-the-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Townsend Releases Debut Novel, The Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMSA\u2019s own Mrs. Tracy Townsend debut novel, <em>The Nine<\/em>, published Tuesday, November 14 from Pyr Books<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Nine<\/em> is the first of a trilogy, <em>Thieves of Fate<\/em>. Mrs. Townsend did a promotional book signing event at Anderson\u2019s Bookshop on Monday, November 13<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px\">,&nbsp;<\/span>before her book\u2019s nationwide release.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to describe her book, Mrs. Townsend calls its \u201c<em>Ocean\u2019s Eleven<\/em> meets <em>His Dark Materials.<\/em>&#8221;&nbsp;<em>The Nine<\/em> is about people who get caught up in something much bigger than them; the characters find a book that proves that God is watching mankind in an experiment that is coming to an end. There&#8217;s politics, murders, scrappy orphans, and \u201ccurmudgeonly, good-souled people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Townsend says that publishing her debut novel feels like releasing a secret to the world, a process that has been &#8220;exciting yet surreal.&#8221; She is also very grateful to IMSA for all the support, noting that the book started as a project in 2012 for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Many members of&nbsp;the IMSA community read parts of drafts and helped her improve, and Mrs. Townsend believes that <em>The Nine<\/em> would not even exist without IMSA.<\/p>\n<p>The IMSA community is excited about the release of the novel and can\u2019t wait for the rest of the series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMSA\u2019s own Mrs. Tracy Townsend debut novel, The Nine, published Tuesday, November 14 from Pyr Books.&nbsp; The Nine is the first of a trilogy, Thieves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":20009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019,2724],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2748],"class_list":["post-20008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imsanews","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20008"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20107,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20008\/revisions\/20107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20008"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}