{"id":7817,"date":"2025-11-16T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:31:48","slug":"a-new-book-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/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>For anyone interested, I am working on a new book.<\/p>\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=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/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<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>For anyone interested, I am working on a new book. 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 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/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_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":"","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}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-225","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7801,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2025\/07\/04\/time-for-an-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":7817,"position":0},"title":"Time for an Update&#8230;.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Big things have been happening in my personal life. For now, I thought a simple update would be a good place to start. At 65 years old, I learned that I'm Autistic. That explains a LOT. This has prompted lots and lots of looking back and thinking \"OH,\u00a0that's why!\" I'm\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/book\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-01-17-16_009-s-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5054,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/13\/new-book-on-learning-processing\/","url_meta":{"origin":7817,"position":1},"title":"New Book on Learning Processing","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out Jim Parker's most recent book, available only as a E-book. \"100 Cool Processing Sketches\" is a book that purports to teach computer programming by example using a visual language. Contains all of the source code, downloadable. Includes exercises and references. For artists, for intro programming, and for digital\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/book\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"100 sketches","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/100-sketches-283x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5219,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/01\/so-you-want-to-write-a-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":7817,"position":2},"title":"So you want to write a book&#8230;","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I just recently submitted the final draft of my upcoming book\u00a0to\u00a0the editor, and I came across this page from Scott Meyers that has some good advice: Scott Meyers: Advice to Prospective Book Authors. It's long, but if you are thinking about writing a book, then it's worth a read. 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It will also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/book\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5621,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/10\/04\/gamification-10117-what-is-needed-in-a-gamified-grading-application\/","url_meta":{"origin":7817,"position":5},"title":"Gamification 101[17]: What Does a Gamified Grading Application Need to Have?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This is Part 17 in my continuing saga of my current iteration of a gamified course. As I've said before, current course management systems don't have the flexibility required to accommodate a gamified design such as mine (here and here). 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