{"id":165,"date":"2007-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2007\/10\/30\/starting-over-from-scratch-a-correction\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T00:00:00","slug":"starting-over-from-scratch-a-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Starting Over from Scratch (A Correction)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I goofed.&nbsp;Remember how I expressed my extreme displeasure with an unnamed publisher&#8217;s plans to put a coffee-scented dust jacket on the cover of&nbsp;one of their&nbsp;forthcoming young adult novels in my &quot;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/blog\/660000266\/post\/1160016116.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Smells Like Caffeine<\/a>&quot; post of 10\/21? Scratch that. As it turns out, I misunderstood their intentions. The dust jacket on&nbsp;the&nbsp;novel in question will NOT, in fact, smell like coffee&mdash;the small scratch-and-sniff sticker affixed to said dust jacket will, but hopefully only when scratched.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling both relieved and humbled by this revelation, I&#8217;m asking you to overlook my misstatements&nbsp;about this one publisher&#8217;s plans. Please don&#8217;t, though, overlook my feelings about the very idea of a scented dust jacket, as those certainly haven&#8217;t changed.&nbsp;(Ick!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I goofed.&nbsp;Remember how I expressed my extreme displeasure with an unnamed publisher&rsquo;s plans to put a coffee-scented dust jacket on the cover of&nbsp;one of their&nbsp;forthcoming young adult novels in my &#8220;Smells Like Caffeine&#8221; post of 10\/21? Scratch that. As it turns out, I misunderstood their intentions. The dust jacket on&nbsp;the&nbsp;novel in question will NOT, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}