{"id":271,"date":"2013-10-12T20:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T20:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2013-10-12T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T20:40:46","slug":"the-ongoing-book-tour-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/12\/the-ongoing-book-tour-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachman, the ongoing book tour and other news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, several things to talk about today. First and foremost, Erin over at <a href=\"http:\/\/bookwormsfancy.com\/\" title=\"Bookworm's Fancy blog\" target=\"_blank\">Bookworm&#8217;s Fancy<\/a> has kindly taken another guest post of mine, this time a review of <em>Coachman<\/em> by Sue Millard (see <a href=\"http:\/\/bookwormsfancy.com\/2013\/10\/coachman-by-sue-millard-guest-review-by-richard-abbott\/\" title=\"Coachman guest review on Bookworm's Fancy\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bookwormsfancy.com\/2013\/10\/coachman-by-sue-millard-guest-review-by-richard-abbott\/<\/a>. I really enjoyed both reading the book and writing the (5*) review &#8211; and also having the opportunity to wander a few minutes down the road from work and seeing what some of the locations look like today. For fun, I have included another photo here, this time of the current building on the site of the coaching inn that features in the book (The Swan with Two Necks). For more about what I thought, and more pictures, check out the Bookworm!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kephrath.com\/images\/former_swan_small.jpg\" style='border:1px solid #888888' alt=\"The former Swan location\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, as well as that there have been another few stages in the Orangeberry blog tour:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qualityreadsuk.com\/2013\/09\/richard-abbott-shares-his-two-cents-on.html\" title=\"Guest post at Quality Reads UK\" target=\"_blank\">A guest post &#8220;Writing about religious organisations&#8221; at Quality Reads UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/booksane.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/10\/in-milk-and-honeyed-land-by-richard.html\" title=\"Extract at Keeping Sane with Books\" target=\"_blank\">An extract and some blurb at Keeping Sane with Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topofshelfbooks.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/10\/author-interview-richard-abbott.html\" title=\"Author interview at Top Shelf Books\" target=\"_blank\">An author interview at Top Shelf Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally I have found time for some book reviews! Here are the links on Goodreads&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/694441364\" title=\"Death Speaker review on Goodreads\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Death Speaker<\/em> by Vickey Kall<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/736671601\" title=\"Take Back Tomorrow review on Goodreads\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Take Back Tomorrow<\/em> by Richard Levesque<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now, some more updates about <em>Scenes from a Life<\/em> will follow shortly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, several things to talk about today. First and foremost, Erin over at Bookworm&#8217;s Fancy has kindly taken another guest post of mine, this time a review of Coachman by Sue Millard (see http:\/\/bookwormsfancy.com\/2013\/10\/coachman-by-sue-millard-guest-review-by-richard-abbott\/. I really enjoyed both reading the book and writing the (5*) review &#8211; and also having the opportunity to wander a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/12\/the-ongoing-book-tour-and-other-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coachman, the ongoing book tour and other news<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-post","category-review","category-scenes-from-a-life","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}