{"id":692,"date":"2026-10-06T18:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2026-10-06T18:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:32:05","slug":"writing-of-return-false-commences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Writing of Return False, Commences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-From-2026-10-06-12-34-24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"880\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-From-2026-10-06-12-34-24-1024x880.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-693\" style=\"width:658px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-From-2026-10-06-12-34-24-1024x880.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-From-2026-10-06-12-34-24-300x258.png 300w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-From-2026-10-06-12-34-24-768x660.png 768w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-From-2026-10-06-12-34-24-1536x1320.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-From-2026-10-06-12-34-24.png 1633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve started writing the third Joshua Jones novel &#8211; Return False. Currently sitting at 13 K words. My goal is to complete the first draft by the end of the year. Then spend some time in 2027 editing it and getting it ready for publication later in the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you enjoyed the first two books, please encourage your reader friends to buy them and they&#8217;ll be ready for the release of Return False. I don&#8217;t currently sell any copies of these books and they deserve a wider audience!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also next year, we&#8217;re looking at doing new editions of the first two books in a larger format. I&#8217;ll keep you informed of the progress on that. Until then, it&#8217;s back to the writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started writing the third Joshua Jones novel &#8211; Return False. Currently sitting at 13 K words. My goal is to complete the first draft by the end of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37,32,7],"tags":[21,16,26],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","category-return-false","category-writing","tag-mystery","tag-mystery-series","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}