{"id":3571,"date":"2010-10-04T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2010-10-04T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T15:38:54","slug":"welcome-to-the-new-alert-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the New Alert Nerd!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<br \/>\nYou may have noticed that things are a little different around here. Or\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6well, okay, <em>a lot<\/em> different. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a shiny new look and a shiny new focus and we hope you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll join us for the ride (which is shiny! And new!). Details below (and archived forever on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?page_id=3515\">About Page<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>\nMatt, Sarah, Jeff, and Chris<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Alert Nerd?<\/strong><br \/>\nAlert Nerd is a collective of writers and artists examining geek culture and personal experience through fiction, creative nonfiction, and other media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was Alert Nerd?<\/strong><br \/>\nFor more than four years, Alert Nerd was a blog that spat hundreds of thousands of words into the ether on all kinds of geeky stuff. From it grew <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?page_id=3559\">Grok<\/a>, a PDF zine that contains much of the same kind of material that makes up Alert Nerd now\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfiction, comedy, memoir, long-form essays, and the like\u00e2\u20ac\u201das well as Alert Nerd Press, a boutique (we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so vain) publishing house presenting books for geeks, by geeks, and about geeks and the stuff they love.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Grok and the desire to pursue more creative projects together and apart, Alert Nerd the ranty blog became Alert Nerd the creative blog. The end!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What amazingness can I expect from Alert Nerd this week?<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Wednesday, Matt launches his serialized novel, <em>Retcon Punch<\/em>. And on Friday, look for Part I of Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?page_id=3552\">One Con Glory<\/a><\/em> mini-sequel \u00e2\u20ac\u0153With Violet Light,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d featuring some pretty swell extras (oooh!). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Can I contribute to Alert Nerd?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Alert Nerd has an editorial team made up of its primary contributors and the founders of the old-school Alert Nerd blog, we encourage contributions from anyone interested in sharing their work, within these categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Short fiction<\/li>\n<li>First-person essays<\/li>\n<li>Long-form criticism and analysis<\/li>\n<li>Humor\/satire<\/li>\n<li>Comics<\/li>\n<li>Poetry, spoken word, music, videos, whatevs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pitch your ideas to us at <a href=\"mailto:submit@alertnerd.com\">submit@alertnerd.com<\/a>! Writers retain full ownership of their work; all we ask is a seven-day exclusive window before you post material on your own site (in the case of material that has not previously appeared in another outlet). We also may invite you to contribute work to upcoming publications from Alert Nerd Press but participation is optional and you will be asked for permission before your work is included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, You may have noticed that things are a little different around here. Or\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6well, okay, a lot different. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a shiny new look and a shiny new focus and we hope you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll join us for the ride (which is shiny! And new!). Details below (and archived forever on our About Page). Love, Matt, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}