{"id":12989,"date":"2015-09-02T17:54:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/?p=12989"},"modified":"2015-09-15T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:23:31","slug":"book-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2015\/09\/book-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Book awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:2em;\"><em>To support the launch of the finished book covers by <em>Marti Adrian<\/em> this fall, there is supposed to be &#8216;marketing&#8217; going on. That hardly makes sense because it&#8217;s my book. Instead I&#8217;d like to refresh the trilogy&#8217;s awards &#8230; something I&#8217;ve wanted to do because they were rushed together at the time. <\/em><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-awards\/img\/reader-views-awards_logo.png\" style=\"float:left;margin-right:2em;\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 2em;\">The first award for <strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong> was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-awards\/award_reader-views.html\"><em>Reader Views Literary Awards<\/em><\/a>, winning second in the Historical Fiction category in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>Absolutely it was exciting, and also because the honor showed the story engaged with people who didn&#8217;t especially know or even <em>like<\/em> horses.<\/p>\n<p>It was my hope to engage people with no particular interest in horses, yet who might enjoy them and don&#8217;t know it. <\/p>\n<p>The horse&#8217;s human story deserves to be remembered&#8211;and as many horse-lovers know, it is a joyful experience to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To support the launch of the finished book covers by Marti Adrian this fall, there is supposed to be &#8216;marketing&#8217; going on. That hardly makes sense because it&#8217;s my book. Instead I&#8217;d like to refresh the trilogy&#8217;s awards &#8230; something I&#8217;ve wanted to do because they were rushed together at the time. The first award &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2015\/09\/book-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book awards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[118,152,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}