{"id":1082,"date":"2011-08-15T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2011-08-15T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:19:44","slug":"the-rita-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/the-rita-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"The RITA Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The what, you ask? \u00a0Oh, that. \u00a0But that was ages ago, you say. \u00a0Well, last year I wrote a post called &#8220;Summer Omnibus Update&#8221; in <em>October<\/em>. \u00a0Seasonality is not my best trait. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t really see me but if you set your audio to maximum, you can hear the speech pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yCcN9ezGGV8?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See, you don&#8217;t need to speak English all that well to write okay in it. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0(A long time ago, Bettie Sharpe confessed that before she first heard me, she&#8217;d imagined I spoke with a smoky voice, kind of like an expat in a French cafe. Darn it. I think I should too.)<\/p>\n<p>My gratitude goes to my RWA roommie Kristyne Raley, for taking the video and then transferring it to a USB stick for me. \u00a0(Btw, Kristyne, your USB stick is so fancy it took me a minute to realize it has two ends! \u00a0Hmm, did I just reveal again how much of a Luddite I am?)<\/p>\n<p>Since we are it, a couple more foreign covers. \u00a0Up first, Slovene HIS AT NIGHT. \u00a0The cover model is awfully pretty, but I&#8217;d always pictured Elissande a bit fuller&#8211;both in the face and in the bosom. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/the-rita-speech\/slovene-han\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1084\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1084\" title=\"slovene-han\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/slovene-han.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/slovene-han.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/slovene-han-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now, the upcoming German reissue of PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS. \u00a0From what I understand, Cora Verlag (Harlequin Germany) first distributes their titles to train stations and other such convenience spots. \u00a0And then later a book might get repackaged for the bookstores. \u00a0So here is the repackaging and I&#8217;m very excited to have my first leads-lying-down-together cover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/the-rita-speech\/german-pa-rerelease\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1083\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1083\" title=\"german-pa-rerelease\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/german-pa-rerelease.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all, folks. \u00a0For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The what, you ask? \u00a0Oh, that. \u00a0But that was ages ago, you say. \u00a0Well, last year I wrote a post called &#8220;Summer Omnibus Update&#8221; in October. \u00a0Seasonality is not my best trait. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 You can&#8217;t really see me but if you set your audio to maximum, you can hear the speech pretty well. &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8230; <a title=\"The RITA Speech\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/the-rita-speech\/\" aria-label=\"More on The RITA Speech\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35,21,66,72,56,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}