{"id":9089,"date":"2018-08-05T19:19:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2018-08-05T19:19:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:19:35","slug":"meet-my-peculiar-families-john-valeri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=9089","title":{"rendered":"Meet My Peculiar Families  John Valeri"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9090\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbvaleri.com\/about.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9090\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9090\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9090\" src=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Valeri-241x300.jpeg\" alt=\"John Valeri\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Valeri-241x300.jpeg 241w, http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Valeri.jpeg 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Valeri<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A reclusive novelist has earned herself a cult following \u2026 The trouble is, she may not have ever published a damn thing.<\/p>\n<p>#Author <strong>@JohnValeri <\/strong>talks about his peculiar story in the upcoming #short #story collection, MY PECULIAR FAMILY II:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWriting\u00a0\u201cPublish\/Perish\u201d\u00a0was a \u201cpeculiar\u201d experience in that it elicited an overwhelmingly vehement response from the few trusted early readers who got a glimpse at the first half\u2014more so than anything I\u2019d shared previously. I was inundated with enthusiastic congratulations on my too-good-to-be-true book deal, tempered only by sympathetic commiseration over my impending divorce. While there are a few autobiographical elements infused within the story, neither of those occurrences happen to be among them. I\u2019m still an \u201caspiring novelist,\u201d and I\u2019m still happily married. Guess I should have prefaced my submission with a precursor:\u00a0<em>This is a work of fiction<\/em>. Live and learn, huh?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more and\/or support this peculiar publication\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/285514212\/my-peculiar-family-celebrations?ref=nav_search&amp;result=project&amp;term=my%20peculiar\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#MPF2<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9076\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9076\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9076 \" src=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/My-Peculiar-Family-2-3D-Cover-1.png\" alt=\"My Peculiar Family 2\" width=\"486\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/My-Peculiar-Family-2-3D-Cover-1.png 344w, http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/My-Peculiar-Family-2-3D-Cover-1-229x300.png 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Peculiar 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