{"id":5,"date":"2012-12-02T00:23:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.210.101.194\/~lelandha\/wordpress\/?p=5"},"modified":"2012-12-02T00:23:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T00:23:42","slug":"huck-finn-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/huck-finn-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Huck Finn is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997, I started a book called &#8220;<a title=\"Huck Finn is Dead by Leland E. Hale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Huck-Finn-Is-Dead-ebook\/dp\/B00AD7CVUM\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1354406153&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=huck+finn+is+dead\">Huck Finn is Dead<\/a>.&#8221; It made the rounds of the top New York publishers, but didn&#8217;t catch on. Even so, my agent had faith in the work and always encouraged me to revisit it sometime. So&#8230; During the summer of 2011 and through 2012, Huck Finn is Dead enjoyed a major re-write.<\/p>\n<p>I have finally published it. As an eBook on Amazon.com. <a title=\"Huck Finn is Dead by Leland E. Hale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Huck-Finn-Is-Dead-ebook\/dp\/B00AD7CVUM\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1354406153&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=huck+finn+is+dead\">Huck Finn is Dead.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s a catchy title and I wouldn&#8217;t change it for anything. But if I&#8217;d been thinking about SEO (search engine optimization) I might have chosen one with a little less <em>competition<\/em>. Jeez. The title, by the way, comes from a man who counseled runaway kids. His message: it&#8217;s too dangerous for kids to embark on cross-country journeys of self-discovery. &#8220;Huck Finn is dead,&#8221; he told them. 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