
{"id":9838,"date":"2017-10-30T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=9838"},"modified":"2017-10-30T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T16:33:18","slug":"new-winner-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2017\/10\/new-winner-new-books\/","title":{"rendered":"New winner, new books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mums-\u00a9-Ellen-Wade-Beals-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9840 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mums-\u00a9-Ellen-Wade-Beals-2015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mums \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>Hello there<\/strong>. Hope you have a bowlful of your favorite candy ready for the trick-and-treaters, and that you have plenty of leftovers, which you can then eat yourself when Halloween is over. Sugar high for everyone!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woo-hoo. Big congrats<\/strong> are in order. <strong><em>Solace in So Many Words<\/em> <\/strong>contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joancorwin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Joan Corwin<\/strong> <\/a>is the winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/winningwriters.com\/whats-new\/joan-corwin-and-debbie-weingarten-win-the-25th-annual-tom-howard-contest\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2017 Tom Howard\/ John H. Reid Fiction Prize<\/strong><\/a> for her story <strong>\u201cLength of Days.\u201d<\/strong> You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/winningwriters.com\/past-winning-entries\/length-of-days\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/the-writers.org\/webadmin\/web\/Background.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9841 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/logo@2x-300x139.png\" alt=\"logo@2x\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/logo@2x-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/logo@2x.png 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two members of my writing group <a href=\"http:\/\/the-writers.org\/webadmin\/web\/Background.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The Writers<\/strong><strong>)<\/strong> <\/a>have new books.\u00a0 <strong>Laurie Levy\u2019s<\/strong> novel is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stendhal-Summer-Laurie-Levy\/dp\/1937484556\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Stendhal Summer<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>and is out from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amikapress.com\/authors\/laurie-levy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amika Press<\/strong><\/a>. She was just interviewed last night on <strong>WGN<\/strong> radio by <strong>Rick Kogan <\/strong>on his<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wgnradio.com\/2017\/10\/29\/full-show-188\/\" target=\"_blank\"> After Hours <\/a><\/strong>program.<a href=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cvr_ss_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9842\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cvr_ss_sm-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"cvr_ss_sm\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cvr_ss_sm-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cvr_ss_sm.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. X. McNeally<\/strong> has a memoir out called <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Dinners-Memoir-Times-Laughter\/dp\/1974286711\" target=\"_blank\">Family Dinners&#8211;A Memoir of Hard Times, Hope, and Laughter<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/51B10LnjzzL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9844\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/51B10LnjzzL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"51B10LnjzzL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/51B10LnjzzL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/51B10LnjzzL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How about you?\u00a0<\/strong> Are you writing? Are you reading? Hope so.<\/p>\n<p>November is <strong>NaNoWriMo<\/strong>; here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>link<\/strong><\/a> should you want to sign up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peace, love, and solace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crest-05e1a637392425b4d5225780797e5a76.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9845\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crest-05e1a637392425b4d5225780797e5a76.png\" alt=\"crest-05e1a637392425b4d5225780797e5a76\" width=\"144\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there. Hope you have a bowlful of your favorite candy ready for the trick-and-treaters, and that you have plenty of leftovers, which you can then eat yourself when Halloween is over. Sugar high for everyone! Woo-hoo. Big congrats are in order. Solace in So Many Words contributor Joan Corwin is the winner of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3394,3395,3393,3392,3391,18,127,12,3396,3389,233,262,2804,374,7,16,3390,32,2764,2103],"class_list":{"0":"post-9838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-length-of-days","8":"tag-2017-tom-howard-john-h-reid-fiction-prize","9":"tag-a-x-mcneally","10":"tag-after-hours-with-rick-kogan","11":"tag-amika-press","12":"tag-anthology","13":"tag-contributors-2","14":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","15":"tag-family-dinners-a-memoir-of-hard-times-hope-and-laughter","16":"tag-halloween-candy","17":"tag-joan-corwin","18":"tag-laurie-levy","19":"tag-nanowrimo","20":"tag-rick-kogan","21":"tag-solace","22":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","23":"tag-the-stendhal-summer","24":"tag-weighed-words","25":"tag-wgn-radio","26":"tag-winning-writers","27":"entry","28":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9848,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838\/revisions\/9848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}