{"id":547,"date":"2012-07-11T21:25:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T02:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2012-07-11T21:25:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T02:25:23","slug":"first-look-the-long-hunt-book-4-of-the-strongbow-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"First look: The Long Hunt, book 4 of The Strongbow Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear frequently from readers of the Strongbow Saga series wanting to know when the next installment of Halfdan&#8217;s story will come out. Those who discovered the story back when it was originally published by HarperCollins have been waiting especially long.<\/p>\n<p>The continuation of the series was delayed for a number of years due to problems with the original publisher. I&#8217;ve discussed them in earlier posts on this site, so will not rehash them again.<\/p>\n<p>And readers who have followed my posts here will be aware that this year has brought big changes in my personal life: I moved from Houston, Texas to Oregon, where my wife Jeanette and I have settled on a small farm, and are beginning a new life. The move and change have been very time consuming, and have temporarily further delayed my progress on book 4.<\/p>\n<p>But I am back at work now, and Halfdan is back. The first chapter of book 4 is now posted on the &#8220;Free Previews&#8221; section of this website. It gives a first look at the new book, and will perhaps answer some questions&#8211;and no doubt raise others&#8211;about what will happen next.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/?p=547\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear frequently from readers of the Strongbow Saga series wanting to know when the next installment of Halfdan&#8217;s story will come out. Those who discovered the story back when it was originally published by HarperCollins have been waiting especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/?p=547\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ITYA-8P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judsonroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}