{"id":149,"date":"2026-01-28T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/?p=149"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:20:29","slug":"welcome-to-my-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my world(s)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Hello, and welcome to the first post in the literary world of Ronald Cosgood &#8211; not my real name of course, but I&#8217;m not exactly hiding.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The simple truth is that I have done so much writing over the years, and in different genres, that it is always a good idea to keep things separate. The last thing that anyone wants is to buy a new hard-SF novel only to find a romantic comedy hiding behind the cover (<em>not that is, that I write romantic comedies<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What you are reading has been a long time coming. I have been seriously reading and writing since I was a child, so I have amassed quite a huge volume of material over more than five decades. Real-life often intrudes in what you want to do on your journey however, and at no point have I felt the opportunity and time to look at publishing anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I have had a number of short films made from my scripts, this year I finally took the plunge and started to organise my work for publication. Since I started writing however, so many new ways of getting a book out into the world have materialised and it has been a hard decision as to which way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, most of the work that you see on the website is going to be published independently &#8211; I will post links to the online distributors where you can pick them up, as well as links to the &#8216;coming soon&#8217; and &#8216;pre-orders&#8217; that will no doubt appear along the way. There will also be a few traditionally published works as well, but while I have a small collection of work that has been included in anthologies (mainly for charity), these will not be included. Only the work of Ronald Cosgood will appear on the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So buckle up, and join me on my publishing experiences &#8211; hopefully, we&#8217;ll all enjoy the ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, and welcome to the first post in the literary world of Ronald Cosgood &#8211; not my real name of course, but I&#8217;m not exactly hiding. The simple truth is that I have done so much writing over the years, and in different genres, that it is always a good idea to keep things separate. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronaldcosgood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}