{"id":7845,"date":"2017-03-14T21:34:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=7845"},"modified":"2017-03-14T21:34:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:34:26","slug":"an-evening-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/australia\/an-evening-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"An evening to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7846\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7846\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ronas17web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candles, chandeliers and books -what a fabulous atmosphere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last night the Romantic Novelists Association held their Romantic Novel of the Year Awards Ceremony. This is a glittering evening of canap\u00e9s and bubbles in the wonderful Gladstone Library in Whitehall Place.<\/p>\n<p>It was particularly special for me this year, because my book Little Girl Lost was shortlisted for the Epic Romantic Novel of the year &#8211; a category that includes books with a central romance at the heart, but that cover broader issues and themes as well.<\/p>\n<p>To cut a long story short &#8211; I WON!!!!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes.. I cried. In fact, the lovely Prue Leith who was handing out the awards gave me her tissues. Thank you Prue.<\/p>\n<p>I was so excited, I can barely remember my acceptance speech &#8211; but a few people have told me it was very nice.<\/p>\n<p>Also very nice is the beautiful glass star that now sits in my office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7847\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7847 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/RONA2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isn&#8217;t it pretty&#8230;..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thank you to the RNA, and the judges and the award organisers and everyone involved. I am thrilled and honoured to hold this award. I have now written three Coorah Creek novels &#8211; and all three are award winners. It&#8217;s going to take a long time for the smile on my face to fade.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7848\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7848\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cc-3-strip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"231\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome to Coorah Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the Romantic Novelists Association held their Romantic Novel of the Year Awards Ceremony. This is a glittering evening of canap\u00e9s and bubbles in the wonderful Gladstone Library in Whitehall Place.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-reading","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845","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=7845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}