{"id":7817,"date":"2025-11-16T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2026-09-11T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:45:23","slug":"a-new-book-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2025\/11\/16\/a-new-book-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Book in the Works&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7892 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/banner-s-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/banner-s-300x100.jpg 300w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/banner-s.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> A series about \u00a0some of the adventures I&#8217;ve had and the things I&#8217;ve learned along the way while trying to live a sustainable, ethical life on a small farm in rural Alberta. (<a href=\"https:\/\/10000eggs.substack.com\">also on Substack<\/a>)<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: 0; height: 3px; background-color: #1f5b83;\" \/>\n<p>For anyone interested, I am working on a new book :<\/p>\n<h1>10,000 Eggs :<\/h1>\n<h2><em>Memoirs of a Precariously Balanced Life<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7818 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-232x300.png 232w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-791x1024.png 791w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-768x994.png 768w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>It\u2019s Stewart McLean meets James Harriot in this collection of short stories about a tech savvy city girl who moves to a small acreage in the rural foothills and tries to build an ethical farm life for herself and her children, only to find that the proverbial simple life is not simple at all.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is for it to be published sometime next summer (2026).<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for updates!<\/p>\n<p>OK, maybe not THIS summer, but soon.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-7817'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(7817);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(7817);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(7817);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A series about \u00a0some of the adventures I&#8217;ve had and the things I&#8217;ve learned along the way while trying to live a sustainable, ethical life on a small farm in rural Alberta. (also on Substack) For anyone interested, I am &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2025\/11\/16\/a-new-book-in-the-works\/\">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_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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-225","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7918,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2026\/09\/11\/a-new-look-for-my-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":7817,"position":0},"title":"A New Look for my Blog&#8230;.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"September 11, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve been doing some reorganizing. 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