{"id":48729,"date":"2018-09-26T15:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T21:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=48729"},"modified":"2018-09-26T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T04:04:10","slug":"visit-author-drew-williams-with-the-stars-now-unclaimed-monday-september-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/visit-author-drew-williams-with-the-stars-now-unclaimed-monday-september-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Author Drew Williams with &#8220;The Stars Now Unclaimed&#8221; Monday, October 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Drew Williams<\/b>\u00a0has been a bookseller in Birmingham, Alabama since he was sixteen years old, when he got the job because he came in looking for work on a day when someone else had just quit. Outside of arguing with his coworkers about whether\u00a0<i>Moby Dick\u00a0<\/i>is brilliant (nope) or terrible (that one), his favorite part of the job is discovering new authors and sharing them with his customers.\u00a0Drew is the author of The Universe After series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Drew Williams&#8217;\u00a0<strong><i>The Stars Now Unclaimed<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0is a fun, adventure-filled space opera set in a far-future galaxy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Hot on her trail is the Pax&#8211;a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must fight their way through a galaxy full of dangerous conflicts, remnants of ancient technology, and other hidden dangers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And that&#8217;s just the beginning . . .\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Williams\u00a0has been a bookseller in Birmingham, Alabama since he was sixteen years old, when he got the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":48818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[13274,448,13276,602,13275],"class_list":["post-48729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-drew-williams","tag-off-square-books","tag-space-opera","tag-square-books","tag-the-stars-now-unclaimed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Stars-Unclaimed.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}