{"id":8008,"date":"2019-07-01T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=8008"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:44:31","slug":"rctc-alum-publishes-soldiers-of-the-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/rctc-alum-publishes-soldiers-of-the-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"RCTC alum publishes &#8216;Soldiers of the Empire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ilhan Raage<br>\nEditor-in-Chief<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8010 alignleft\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Zetar-cover-adjusted-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Zetar Cover\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Zetar-cover-adjusted-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Zetar-cover-adjusted-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Zetar-cover-adjusted-960x1280.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Zetar-cover-adjusted.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Caleb Anthony is an RCTC alum who also graduated from the University of Northwestern in St. Paul with a degree in English Writing.<\/p>\n<p>He is a content writer and writes blog posts and product descriptions for companies. In March, he published the second book in his Zetar series.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers of the Empire can best be described as Star Wars meets Mass Effect, Anthony said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about big galaxies, aliens and a global society, he said.<\/p>\n<p>His writing style is to focus on characters and the impact their choices have and the events and interactions they go through.<\/p>\n<p>His experience with writing Zetar was painful sometimes, rewarding at other times, he said.<\/p>\n<p>If he were to give any advice to other writers, he\u2019d say, put in the work and make sure that your book is where you want it to be so that you\u2019re happy with it once it\u2019s published.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony also encouraged authors to stand behind their work once they are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ilhan Raage Editor-in-Chief Caleb Anthony is an RCTC alum who also graduated from the University of Northwestern in St. Paul with a degree in English Writing. He is a content writer and writes blog posts and product descriptions for companies. In March, he published the second book in his Zetar series. Soldiers of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}