{"id":2,"date":"2006-09-30T20:02:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T00:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/about\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:49:12","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Christy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>ABOUT CHRISTY<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"is-layout-constrained wp-block-group\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Author-Photo-2019-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4882 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Author-Photo-2019-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Author-Photo-2019.jpg 447w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/300;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Author-Photo-2019-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4882\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Author-Photo-2019-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Author-Photo-2019.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A graduate of Duke University, Christy English is the author of the historical fiction novels <em>The Queen&#8217;s Pawn<\/em> (2010) and <em>To Be Queen: A Novel of the Early Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine<\/em> (2011) from New American Library, a division of Penguin Random House. She has also written two historical romance series for Sourcebooks Casablanca: <em>Shakespeare in Love<\/em> (2012-2013) and <em>Broadswords and Ballrooms<\/em> (2015-2016). When she is not writing, she loves to walk the mountain trails near her home in western North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For continuing adventures, follow her on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristyEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/christyacewriter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>, or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/christy.english.779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christy is proud to collaborate with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextchapter.pub\/authors\/christy-english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Next Chapter Publishing<\/a>. Look for her upcoming new releases in ebook, paperback, and audio!<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT CHRISTY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}