{"id":1339,"date":"2013-02-11T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2013-02-11T03:03:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T11:03:37","slug":"the-trials-of-renegade-x-the-blurb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"The Trials of Renegade X &#8211; The Blurb!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsletter subscribers got a sneak peek at this last week, and now, as promised, I am proud to present the description for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13270868-the-trials-of-renegade-x\" target=\"_blank\">The Trials of Renegade X<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u00c2\u00a0Can a half villain ever be a full hero?<\/i> Damien Locke didn&#8217;t choose for his supervillain mom to disown him\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust because he sort of defied her and ruined her evil plans to take over Golden City\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand he didn&#8217;t choose for his superpower to be flying, a superhero ability that involves his least favorite thing: heights. But now that he&#8217;s living with his dad&#8217;s superhero family and enrolling at Heroesworth Academy, he&#8217;s ready to embrace his new life, get his H, and finally <i>belong<\/i> somewhere. But belonging isn&#8217;t as easy as signing up for classes, and Damien finds himself struggling to fit in more than ever. Of course, it doesn&#8217;t help that his sidekick Sarah has a new hero boyfriend\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<i>not<\/i> that he&#8217;s jealous or anything\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor that, just when he&#8217;s sure his fate as a hero has been decided, he gets a new villain power he can&#8217;t control. And it&#8217;s so easy to slip into his old ways when he catches his supervillain girlfriend Kat committing a crime at Heroesworth and covers for her, charming his way out of trouble. But as Damien&#8217;s attempts to lead a purely hero life continue to backfire, he&#8217;ll have to learn to embrace both his hero <i>and<\/i> villain sides, or else risk pushing away everyone he cares about and losing\u00c2\u00a0any chance he has of ever finding his place in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there it is! \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve tried to keep it exciting but not too spoilery. \u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got about a week left on the current WIP, and then I&#8217;ll be back to working on Trials full time!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. \u00c2\u00a0Today is coincidentally the four year anniversary of the day I got the offer for The Rise of Renegade X. \u00c2\u00a0Crazy how time flies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsletter subscribers got a sneak peek at this last week, and now, as promised, I am proud to present the description for The Trials of Renegade X: \u00c2\u00a0Can a half villain ever be a full hero? Damien Locke didn&#8217;t choose for his supervillain mom to disown him\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust because he sort of defied her and ruined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-blurb","tag-the-trials-of-renegade-x"],"views":180,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}