{"id":86,"date":"2014-02-20T01:53:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T06:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2022-03-24T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T03:04:56","slug":"dying-is-my-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Dying is My Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dying_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dying_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"dying_\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dying_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dying_.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnyone who enjoys urban fantasy noir should immediately go pick up <em>Dying Is My Business<\/em>. The promise of the title (a play on Chandler\u2019s <em>Trouble Is My Business<\/em>) is well fulfilled, especially in the use of language \u2013 if Chandler or Hammett were alive today, and writing urban fantasy, it would probably sound something like this. Also, as a former New Yorker myself, I really appreciated the accurate depiction of the city. So many writers set stories in New York who have no idea, say, how long it takes to reach Columbus Circle from Fourteenth Street. It\u2019s a pleasure to encounter a New York City story that makes it obvious the author knows the city well, and renders it in loving, if gritty, detail. Good work, Nick. Looking forward to the sequel, <em>Die and Stay Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Get <em>Dying is My Business<\/em> from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dying-My-Business-Nicholas-Kaufmann-ebook\/dp\/B00CQY9CSE\/\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dying-is-my-business-nicholas-kaufmann\/1114258578?ean=9781250036100\">Barnes and Noble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who enjoys urban fantasy noir should immediately go pick up Dying Is My Business. The promise of the title (a play on Chandler\u2019s Trouble Is My Business) is well fulfilled, especially in the use of language \u2013 if Chandler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/?p=86\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction-and-fantasy","category-uncategorized","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}