{"id":3100,"date":"2012-12-15T03:26:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T08:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2012-12-15T03:26:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T08:26:33","slug":"what-a-great-welcome-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/reading\/what-a-great-welcome-home\/","title":{"rendered":"What a great welcome home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3101\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Introduced-by-Evonne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3101    \" title=\"Introduced by Evonne\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Introduced-by-Evonne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evonne Wareham - another romantic suspence author and friend - kicked off the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hello from London\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most of the terrible things they say about the weather here are true &#8211; especially this time of the year&#8230; but that doesn&#8217;t matter. It&#8217;s great to be home.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first things I have done since arriving \u2013 and one of the best \u2013 is to attend the book launch for Up Close \u2013 the first novel by my good friend Henriette Gyland.<\/p>\n<p>Book launches are always such fun.<\/p>\n<p>There was wine, and smoked salmon; good friends and a lot of talk about books.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Looking around \u2013 I realised that there were a few of us there who shared a story. We all met as unpublished writers &#8211; members of the Romantic Novelists&#8217; Association&#8217;s New Writers Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>We have been friends now for so long, it&#8217;s hard to remember a time before we met.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During those years, we learned our trade. Now we all have books on the shelves\u2026 we are still learning our trade of course. That never stops.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way we have shared a lot of good news and a few setbacks\u2026 but the important part was always the sharing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3107\" style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/with-two-lizes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3107 \" title=\"with two lizes\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/with-two-lizes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More authors - more good friends. With Liz Fenwick and Liz Harris. What is the plural of Liz? Lizes?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am really looking forward to reading Up Close. I am reading two other books right now \u2013 so I have just taken a quick glance at the first few pages \u2013 it looks terrific. I love romantic suspense, and there&#8217;s far too little of it being published right now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3110\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Up-close.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3110 \" title=\"Up close\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Up-close.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fabulous, haunting cover - I see some late night reading in my immediate future.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to the Netherlands tomorrow \u2013 that\u2019s a few hours of travel on planes and trains and automobiles. I am saving Henriette&#8217;s book for that journey.<\/p>\n<p>The launch has reminded me of something really important\u2026<\/p>\n<p>To anyone who is working towards a dream \u2013 whatever that dream is \u2013 don&#8217;t give up.<\/p>\n<p>Good friends will always make the journey a little easier.<\/p>\n<p>It might take a lot of hard work to achieve the dream \u2013 but dreams are worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hello from London\u2026\u00a0 Most of the terrible things they say about the weather here are true &#8211; especially this time of the year&#8230; but that doesn&#8217;t matter. It&#8217;s great to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}