{"id":8364,"date":"2018-05-22T12:16:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=8364"},"modified":"2018-05-22T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:16:04","slug":"a-second-award-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/australia\/a-second-award-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"A second award nomination."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8366\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?page_id=7895\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8366\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wedding-Bells-By-The-Creek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So very proud of this book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m absolutely over the moon .. because Wedding Bells by the Creek has just received its second award nomination. It&#8217;s a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year Award. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>The first book in the Coorah Creek series was also a finalist in this award and it&#8217;s so lovely now to see this 5th book\u00a0recognised in my home country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?page_id=7895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wedding Bells<\/a> tells the story of two people who are no longer young, and who\u00a0have been\u00a0somewhat beaten up by life. <!--more-->One is a long-time resident of The Creek, who appeared in the other books. I wanted to give him\u00a0a new chance at love.<\/p>\n<p>There are many talented authors and very good books on this list of finalists &#8211; it really is an honour to be among them. You can see them all on the <a href=\"http:\/\/romanceaustralia.com\/ruby-finalists-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RWA website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know what this means don&#8217;t you?\u00a0It&#8217;s such\u00a0a great excuse to fly down to Sydney for the RWA conference and awards party. There may also be a new posh dress involved. And new shoes&#8230; the possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m absolutely over the moon .. because Wedding Bells by the Creek has just received its second award nomination. It&#8217;s a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364","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=8364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}