{"id":35,"date":"2008-08-26T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/26\/tod-goldberg-pop-and-loving-it\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T23:54:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T04:54:51","slug":"tod-goldberg-pop-and-loving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/26\/tod-goldberg-pop-and-loving-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tod Goldberg: Pop and Loving It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"todgoldberg.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/todgoldberg.jpg\" width=\"92\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Three years ago, I ran an email exchange between brothers and authors <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/17\/goldbergs-author2author\/\">Lee and Tod Goldberg<\/a>; about a year and a half later, I finally met Tod when he moderated a panel at the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i> Festival of Books where I got to defend the Internet against its latest critic. Recently, Tod landed a gig writing the tie-in novels for <i>Burn Notice<\/i>, which is one of my favorite current TV shows, and last weekend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/la-ca-tie-ins24-2008aug24,0,1463672.story\">he wrote an essay for the <i>Times<\/i><\/a> about how it&#8217;s moved him from &#8220;a career in the literary fiction trenches, where acclaim is something you hang your hat on, since you haven&#8217;t made enough money to buy a hat rack,&#8221; to a state of affairs where &#8220;I am now, apparently, a briskly selling crime writer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer guy. And I can&#8217;t wait to read the book.<\/p>\n<p>(He also has some interesting things to say about how his feelings about the show have subtly changed, and about how other authors feel about the tie-in game.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, I ran an email exchange between brothers and authors Lee and Tod Goldberg; about a year and a half later, I finally met Tod when he moderated a panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books where I got to defend the Internet against its latest critic. Recently, Tod landed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}