{"id":11,"date":"2009-05-16T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2009-05-16T18:14:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T01:14:36","slug":"forthcoming-conlanging-book-from-arika-okrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Forthcoming Conlanging Book from Arika Okrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Land-Invented-Languages-Esperanto-Dreamers\/dp\/0385527888\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1236723025&#038;sr=8-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51-k6DlAUlL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"cover of Okrent's book\"\/><\/a>Arika Okrent (pictured <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/saizai\/LCC2#5086414111783798418\">here<\/a> in the back row of the Language Creation Conference II group photo and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kli.org\/stuff\/qep11pic.html\">here<\/a> in the second row at the Klingon qep&#39;a&#39;) has now provided an important (and unique) contribution to the body of conlang literature scheduled for release on May 19, 2009: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Land-Invented-Languages-Esperanto-Dreamers\/dp\/0385527888\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1236723025&#038;sr=8-1\">In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language<\/a>. Receiving a starred review from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6642078.html?industryid=47159\">Publishers Weekly<\/a> (5th from the bottom), Arika&#8217;s book is poised to become a favorite among conlangers and the general reader interested in language alike. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Land-Invented-Languages-Esperanto-Dreamers\/dp\/0385527888\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1236723025&#038;sr=8-1\">Pre-order<\/a> your copy today. For more books, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/books\/\">Books<\/a> section of <a href=\"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\">The Conlanger&#8217;s Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arika Okrent (pictured here in the back row of the Language Creation Conference II group photo and here in the second row at the Klingon qep&#39;a&#39;) has now provided an important (and unique) contribution to the body of conlang literature scheduled for release on May 19, 2009: In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}