{"id":25,"date":"2006-09-18T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T12:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2006-09-18T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T12:58:18","slug":"what-is-your-least-favorite-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"What is your least favorite of your novels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually an infrequently asked question.  What I&#8217;m usually asked is what my favorite is.  That always feels like choosing among beloved children\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall of them are favorites when seen through one lens or another\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut I definitely have an unfavorite, <em>Time and Time Again.<\/em>  It&#8217;s a reincarnation story, three interwoven narratives in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.  The male protagonist remembers his lives\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe only way reincarnation interests me\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand he changes over time.  I wasn&#8217;t interested in doing a history-repeats-itself story.  While I still like the 18th and 19th-century stories, the 20th-century one  needs revision.<br \/>\nI changed editors in the middle of <em>TATA<\/em>.  Ann Patty, my editor for <em>Wilderness<\/em> departed S &#038; S.  Perhaps I should have gone with her.  Lisa Weinstein who did <em>Ghost<\/em> optioned the book for a film, and I noodled with a screenplay that would give me a chance to revise the narrative, but like most film projects, it was not to be, and I moved on to other things.  The original title was <em>Remember Me<\/em>, but Mary Higgins Clark, also with S &#038; S was publishing a novel by that title the same season.  I&#8217;ve never liked <em>Time and Time Again<\/em> since it&#8217;s much too close to Jack Finney&#8217;s classic<em> Time and Again.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually an infrequently asked question. What I&#8217;m usually asked is what my favorite is. That always feels like choosing among beloved children\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall of them are favorites when seen through one lens or another\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut I definitely have an unfavorite, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=25\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}