{"id":32873,"date":"2020-05-19T06:49:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=32873"},"modified":"2020-05-19T06:49:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:49:35","slug":"the-flying-pig-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=32873","title":{"rendered":"The Flying Pig Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Imagine our delighted but bemused surprise when large boxes of Suzanne Collins&#8217;s <em>The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes <\/em>arrived at the bookstore last week from Scholastic. Sure, back in January, we&#8217;d planned a big hoopla around the fourth Hunger Games release and couldn&#8217;t wait to read it, but COVID-19 had knocked those plans\u2014and even thoughts of the book itself\u2014into the far outfield (or, more aptly, into a far and disused corner of the arena). <\/p>\n\n\n<p>With scores of beautiful copies to sell and a very much shortened promo window on our end, there was nothing for it but to create a video. So on my day off, I recruited three people from my &#8220;pod&#8221; (the little group of friends and family I can hang out with in person these days, still socially distanced) to help me out. Here&#8217;s what we came up with:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Flying Pig Games\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7tqiFYhpaE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no way of knowing how many books we&#8217;ll sell, but given the excitement around the book (I&#8217;ve started it, and it&#8217;s REALLY REALLY great so far!), a well-placed roadside signboard, and our two hammy actors, we have high hopes. Let the Games begin!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookreleasedates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tbo-664x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"393\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoting the fourth book in the Hunger Games series during COVID-19 invited a little video intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32873","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\/32873","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}