{"id":1468,"date":"2009-10-29T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/blog\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2020-04-02T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T02:04:54","slug":"taking-a-break-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2009\/10\/taking-a-break-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Break for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1469\" style=\"margin: 4px 5px;\" title=\"horse2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/horse2.gif\" alt=\"horse2\" width=\"231\" height=\"234\" \/>I want to wish everyone great holidays &#8230; I&#8217;m going to be away from blogging and social media for a while. I&#8217;m preparing for a move, never a minor incident in Boston. I&#8217;m also gearing up for next year and the release of the second volume of the trilogy, <strong>The Golden Spark.<\/strong> &#8220;Yikes&#8221; is my main thought about that right now :)<\/p>\n<p>The first book of the trilogy, <em><strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong><\/em>, was published in 2008 to a starred review in Library Journal and won several honors including first place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hofferaward.com\/Eric-Hoffer-Award-winners.html#categories\"><strong>Eric Hoffer Book Award<\/strong><\/a> for YA, and second in the <a href=\"http:\/\/readerviewsarchives.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/23\/eclipsed-by-shadow-the-legend-of-the-great-horse-book-i-of-iii-by-john-royce\/\" style=\"color:#210000;\"><strong>Reader Views Literary Awards<\/strong><\/a> for Fantasy. It was exciting as a debut author to learn the ropes a bit, and daunting to see how much more there is to learn in this fast-changing environment. Most of all I&#8217;ve enjoyed getting to know readers and receiving their support&#8211;that has been the biggest thrill of this adventure beyond the actual writing.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the release of the sequel to <em><strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong><\/em>, my goal for the new year is to expand my online presence to reach out to new (and old!) readers, and to become effective in communicating through social media. There&#8217;s a much-needed website upgrade in the near future, and an initiative to become more involved on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I wish everyone a fantastic holiday season and a wonderful New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to wish everyone great holidays &#8230; I&#8217;m going to be away from blogging and social media for a while. I&#8217;m preparing for a move, never a minor incident in Boston. I&#8217;m also gearing up for next year and the release of the second volume of the trilogy, The Golden Spark. &#8220;Yikes&#8221; is my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2009\/10\/taking-a-break-for-the-holidays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taking a Break for the Holidays&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468"}],"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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15874,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}