{"id":169,"date":"2008-11-05T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/the-little-book-that-could\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T14:23:04","slug":"the-little-book-that-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/the-little-book-that-could\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Book That Could"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Pe1iAq-tH98\/SRGoFnf41RI\/AAAAAAAAAII\/H4nNb-80MtE\/s1600-h\/PrivateArrangements.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265174253828363538\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Pe1iAq-tH98\/SRGoFnf41RI\/AAAAAAAAAII\/H4nNb-80MtE\/s400\/PrivateArrangements.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis news is actually two days old, but I&#8217;m still going to consider it news.  PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS made <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Publishers Weekly<\/span>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6610357.html#Mass%20Market\">Best of the Year list<\/a>!  It is one of the five books picked for the Mass Market category.  Also on the list is my Levy Tour compadre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordandane.com\">Jordan Dane<\/a> whose book NO ONE HEARD HER SCREAM actually came out on the same day as PA.  Congratulations, Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been years since I read PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS.  And recently, during an online chat, when asked my favorite character of mine&#8211;Gigi&#8217;s mother from PA&#8211;I misspelled her name.  \ud83d\ude42  So getting on the PW list has been fun and sweet rather than rolling-on-the-floor thrilling, like watching a childhood friend succeed from afar.<\/p>\n<p>Now back to work on NOT QUITE A HUSBAND, which is, of course, going to be my best book EVA! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news is actually two days old, but I&#8217;m still going to consider it news. PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS made Publishers Weekly&#8216;s Best of the Year list! It is one of the five books picked for the Mass Market category. Also on the list is my Levy Tour compadre Jordan Dane whose book NO ONE HEARD HER &#8230; <a title=\"The Little Book That Could\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/the-little-book-that-could\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Little Book That Could\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}