{"id":1399,"date":"2012-05-01T02:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T08:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2012-05-01T08:07:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:07:30","slug":"beguiling-the-beauty-at-long-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/beguiling-the-beauty-at-long-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Beguiling the Beauty, at Long Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phew. \u00a0Squee. \u00a0Omg. \u00a0I am both stupefied with excitement and oddly apprehensive, but mostly just pretty darn happy.<\/p>\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t to say that I was unhappy when I didn&#8217;t have books out. \u00a0It was actually quite lovely to just work and never worry about sales, reception, and whatnot&#8211;a purer form of the creative life. \u00a0But I don&#8217;t write books only for myself so it is also very, very nice, once in a while, to have one out for public consumption.<\/p>\n<p>I have an interview going on at <a href=\"http:\/\/katlatham.com\/2012\/04\/interview-with-sherry-thomas-and-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reader I Created Him<\/a>. \u00a0AAR is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.likesbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8135\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">giving away five copies<\/a> of RAVISHING THE HEIRESS, my July release&#8211;you&#8217;ve until Thursday 11:59pm. \u00a0And if you, like me, enjoy such things as a swift kick to the rear, \ud83d\ude42\u00a0then I also have a 3-chapter critique up for bid at <a href=\"http:\/\/critsforwater.katbrauer.com\/2012\/05\/01\/auction-critique-of-three-chapters-by-author-sherry-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Crits for Water<\/a>&#8211;it will be up for 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>I am the keynote speaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/ctrwa.org\/connecticut-fiction-fest-2012\/\">Connecticut Fiction Fest<\/a> on May 12. \u00a0There is still time to register if you are interested.<\/p>\n<p>For readers outside of North America, my first two books are now available for Kindle. \u00a0And will be available on other platforms as soon as we configure how to restrict sales on those platforms to outside of North America&#8211;possibly as early as next week. \u00a0For Private Arrangements, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007Y9ICN2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>. \u00a0For Delicious, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007Y9UOCO\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I still have to proof NOT QUITE A HUSBAND and HIS AT NIGHT; those will have to wait until TEMPTING THE BRIDE is in tiptop shape. \u00a0Want to close out the trilogy on a proper high note so must work for it.<\/p>\n<p>And on that, I hope you enjoy BEGUILING THE BEAUTY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew. \u00a0Squee. \u00a0Omg. \u00a0I am both stupefied with excitement and oddly apprehensive, but mostly just pretty darn happy. Which isn&#8217;t to say that I was unhappy when I didn&#8217;t have books out. \u00a0It was actually quite lovely to just work and never worry about sales, reception, and whatnot&#8211;a purer form of the creative life. \u00a0But &#8230; <a title=\"Beguiling the Beauty, at Long Last\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/beguiling-the-beauty-at-long-last\/\" aria-label=\"More on Beguiling the Beauty, at Long Last\">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":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399"}],"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=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}