{"id":1319,"date":"2010-12-04T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:27","slug":"authors-books-and-winter-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"Authors, Books, and the Winter of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/TPp1DQmW6HI\/AAAAAAAAB8E\/9D_6QFW0h5o\/s1600\/WBBT_logo_2010.png\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/WBBT_logo_2010.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s just always a good time to read a book.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an <i>especially<\/i> good time to read a book in the cold, when it&#8217;s snuggle-down-and-ignore-the-world time of year. Or, when it&#8217;s dear-heaven-how-many-days-&#8217;til-Christmas time of year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got you covered for gift ideas and good reads with the Winter Blog Blast Tour. Join us this next week as we invite a few of our faves in the author\/illustrator world to come by. Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshberkbooks.com\/index.html\" target= _blank>Josh Berk<\/a>, author of the HILARIOUSLY disturbing <i>The Dark Days of Hamburger Halprin<\/i>, a book that looks like it might be middle-grade, from the cover, but crosses over really well, the fabulous and insanely talented illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leuyenpham.com\/leuyenphamstudios.html\" target= _blank>Uyen Pham<\/a> &#8212; who is breaking into the writing field, people, pay attention &#8212; and finally, the Harlequin author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariavsnyder.com\/\" target= _blank>Maria V. Snyder<\/a>, creator of some of the most swoon-worthy male characters ever, and whom we are SO glad to have caught up with in her super-busy, my-book-just-came-out-this-year schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Plus more fun folks on other blogs &#8212; including Paolo Bacigalupi (squee!), L.K. Madigan (more squee!) and many more.<\/p>\n<p>See you Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just always a good time to read a book. It&#8217;s an especially good time to read a book in the cold, when it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,65],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happenings","tag-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6303,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}