{"id":2991,"date":"2013-05-07T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:02:08","slug":"gone-for-an-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2991","title":{"rendered":"Gone for An Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is outlandish to be gone from my own blog for so long. My excuses are deadlines, as always, but also traveling. I had an amazing time at this year&#8217;s Romantic Times Convention, enjoying myself with Jennifer Weltz, CW Gortner, Stephanie Dray, Kate Quinn, and Donna Russo Morin during our off hours.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scaledImageFitWidth img aligncenter lazyload\" alt=\"Photo: With the ladies at the RT banquet, va-va-voom!\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash4\/p480x480\/420608_10200323832510984_1986295622_n.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 504px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 504\/378;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scaledImageFitWidth img aligncenter\" alt=\"Photo: With the ladies at the RT banquet, va-va-voom!\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash4\/p480x480\/420608_10200323832510984_1986295622_n.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>I got to spend a little time with my fabulous editor, Leah and the lovely Beth from Sourcebooks as well. One thing that a convention can do is to remind us of who our tribe is. This one did that for me in spades.<\/p>\n<p>So I return home, and to my writing, the work I love, the storytelling that has been a blessing to me all of my life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MidSummer-Night-Cover-Small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2972 lazyload\" alt=\"MidSummer Night Cover Small\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MidSummer-Night-Cover-Small.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"411\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/411;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2972\" alt=\"MidSummer Night Cover Small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MidSummer-Night-Cover-Small.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"411\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My current WIP is MUCH ADO ABOUT JACK in which Angelique Beauchamp, Anthony&#8217;s mistress from HOW TO TAME A WILLFUL WIFE finally finds her true love. About time, I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is outlandish to be gone from my own blog for so long. My excuses are deadlines, as always, but also traveling. I had an amazing time at this year&#8217;s Romantic Times Convention, enjoying myself with Jennifer Weltz, CW Gortner, Stephanie Dray, Kate Quinn, and Donna Russo Morin during our off hours. I got to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2991\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gone for An Age<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}