{"id":713,"date":"2010-09-03T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2010-09-03T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:00:29","slug":"eleanor-and-alais-in-germany-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor and Alais in Germany &#038; Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am thrilled&#8230; <em>The Queen&#8217;s Pawn<\/em> has been picked up not just in Germany, which is amazing enough, but now it will be available in Turkey. I love that both\u00a0Germans and Turks will soon\u00a0read a bit about Eleanor. She\u00a0rode through both the Empire of\u00a0Germany and through Constantinople (now Istanbul)\u00a0on her way to the Second Crusade.\u00a0 Eleanor was not much of a crusader..she and her lords from Aquitaine and Poitou spent most of their time avoiding battle, but she was a huge fan of Turkish baths, as we will see in <em>To Be Queen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Alais, as far as we know, never got farther from\u00a0Paris than Windsor and Bath, but\u00a0no doubt Eleanor will look after her as they travel to beautiful and exotic foreign lands.<\/p>\n<p>In my next blog entry, I will explain how foreign sales happen, and how mine took place. A little information for the curious, and for those of you working to be authors who will someday have this experience yourselves.\u00a0So tune in Monday&#8230;and we will explore how my foreign sales happened, and what you can expect when your agent gets you a foreign deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am thrilled&#8230; The Queen&#8217;s Pawn has been picked up not just in Germany, which is amazing enough, but now it will be available in Turkey. I love that both\u00a0Germans and Turks will soon\u00a0read a bit about Eleanor. She\u00a0rode through both the Empire of\u00a0Germany and through Constantinople (now Istanbul)\u00a0on her way to the Second Crusade.\u00a0 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=713\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eleanor and Alais in Germany &#038; Turkey<\/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\/713"}],"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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}