{"id":11729,"date":"2017-03-10T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=11729"},"modified":"2017-03-06T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T08:12:24","slug":"how-andrewmckiernan-signs-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/how-andrewmckiernan-signs-books\/","title":{"rendered":"How @AndrewMcKiernan Signs Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11730 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/zena-shapter-andrew-mckiernan.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/zena-shapter-andrew-mckiernan.jpg 510w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/zena-shapter-andrew-mckiernan-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/zena-shapter-andrew-mckiernan-96x150.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>What kind of books does Andrew J McKiernan write?<\/h3>\n<p>Mainly horror, dark-fantasy, crime and science fiction. But, he says, he actually has no preferences, &#8220;because I believe that genre is for marketing departments and bookstore shelves, and not something an author should be concerned about :)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Tell me more!<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11731\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AMcK_author-300x169.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AMcK_author-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AMcK_author-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AMcK_author-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AMcK_author.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Andrew J. McKiernan is a writer and illustrator from the Central Coast of New South Wales. First published in 2007, his stories have since been short-listed for multiple Aurealis, Ditmar, and Australian Shadows awards, as well as being reprinted internationally and in a number of Year\u2019s Best anthologies. His short story collection, &#8216;Last Year, When We Were Young&#8217;, was awarded the 2014 AHWA Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work. &#8220;The Message&#8221; was recently optioned to be produced as a short film by award-winning Australian director Tom Spark.<\/p>\n<h3>Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewmckiernan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">andrewmckiernan.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What does his handwriting reveal?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"entry-content\">Compare his swirls and slants to the letters and revelations <a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/how-authors-sign-books-handwriting-personality\/\">here<\/a>, then scroll to check out your next author!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 20px; left: 239px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of books does Andrew J McKiernan write? Mainly horror, dark-fantasy, crime and science fiction. But, he says, he actually has no preferences, &#8220;because I believe that genre is for marketing departments and bookstore shelves, and not something an author should be concerned about :)&#8221;. Tell me more! Andrew\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/how-andrewmckiernan-signs-books\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,1718,1726],"class_list":["post-11729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-authors","tag-andrew-j-mckiernan","tag-handwriting","tag-how-authors-sign-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11739,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions\/11739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}