{"id":1976,"date":"2018-04-03T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2018-04-03T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:04:36","slug":"michael-kardos-a-book-so-good-its-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kardos: A book so good, it&#8217;s magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/e74120_7a2aa3d1387a4d32baf787bea3f3fd45~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_712,h_1082,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01\/e74120_7a2aa3d1387a4d32baf787bea3f3fd45~mv2.webp\" alt=\"Michael Kardos novel\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" \/>Ohio State University alum Michael Kardos had a problem. How could he keep his son busy while he was writing? The solution: promise to write story chapters for his son if he played quietly for a time. In a classic case of unexpected benefits, Kardos discovered that writing for his son made him realize the importance of writing for a sense of wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Moving from writing for his child to writing for an adult audience, Kardos kept the sense of astonishment and trained it on the world of magic, specifically how a magician, already a has-been in her twenties, can find new ways to use her skill, those hundreds of hours of practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Craft-2018-4-5-Kardos.mp3\">Listen in to hear<\/a> the secrets of the trade from a former magician and full time author.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_309\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1976-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Craft-2018-4-5-Kardos.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Craft-2018-4-5-Kardos.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Craft-2018-4-5-Kardos.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Craft-2018-4-5-Kardos.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1976-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Craft-2018-4-5-Kardos.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft-2018-4-5-Kardos.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio State University alum Michael Kardos had a problem. How could he keep his son busy while he was writing? The solution: promise to write story chapters for his son if he played quietly for a time. In a classic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-craft-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}