{"id":672,"date":"2026-06-15T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:11:53","slug":"asking-for-an-effort-by-nicholas-busselman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/asking-for-an-effort-by-nicholas-busselman\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Asking for an Effort&#8221; by Nicholas Busselman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screenshot.36.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screenshot.36.jpg 293w, https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screenshot.36-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Unlike his infamous and legendary older brothers, Mitch lacks initiative and purpose. A halfhearted, months-long job search on foot finally leads him to Pimlico, where an attractive girl on horseback ignites a flame deep inside him. Suddenly stubborn and determined, he seems bound to become a fixture or a failure at the race track, where the thoroughbreds stand ready to run.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Asking for an Effort<\/span>\u00a0is a work of character-driven literary fiction set in the late 1970s to early 1980s. The patiently and beautifully narrated novella gives the reader a detailed and authentic understanding of the horse racing culture, social norms and family synergies of that era.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike his infamous and legendary older brothers, Mitch lacks initiative and purpose. A halfhearted, months-long job search on foot finally leads him to Pimlico, where an attractive girl on horseback ignites a flame deep inside him. Suddenly stubborn and determined, he seems bound to become a fixture or a failure at the race track, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novellas","tag-nicholas-busselman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}