{"id":415,"date":"2014-12-14T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T14:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2014-12-14T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T14:50:43","slug":"blog-hop-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/14\/blog-hop-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog hop next week!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next weekend I shall – along with a considerable number of other authors – be participating in a Christmas Party Blog Hop organised by Helen Hollick. Helen, for those who don’t know, is not only an author herself but also carries out a considerable amount of work for the Historical Novel Society, including coordinating the indie review section.<\/p>\n

\"Helen<\/p>\n

Now of course my own writing is about a period which considerably predates the celebration of Christmas – I am not the only contributor facing similar problems – and Helen has extended the parameters to include other kinds of festivities. I have chosen to talk about an Ugaritic festival called The Hunt<\/em>, alluded to a few times in The Flame Before Us<\/em>. Check back on December 20th to read all about it, and also to enjoy the many and varied contributions from others.<\/p>\n

In wider news, I have just finished another thorough edit of The Flame Before Us<\/em> and am working on the sole remaining section. All being well the book should be released a couple of months into 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next weekend I shall – along with a considerable number of other authors – be participating in a Christmas Party Blog Hop organised by Helen Hollick. Helen, for those who don’t know, is not only an author herself but also carries out a considerable amount of work for the Historical Novel Society, including coordinating the … Continue reading Blog hop next week!<\/span> →<\/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":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-hop","category-the-flame-before-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}