{"id":5250,"date":"2014-11-09T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T07:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2014-11-09T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T07:04:18","slug":"a-gold-ribbon-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=5250","title":{"rendered":"A gold ribbon day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5251\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ftcc-NOMINATED-e1415028168561.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5251\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ftcc-NOMINATED-e1415028168561.png\" alt=\"Such an exciting thing - to be selected by readers as one of their favourites.\" width=\"450\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Such an exciting thing &#8211; to be selected by readers as one of their favourites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh my! Wow! And&#8230; and&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This week I learned\u00a0two of my books are\u00a0finalists for\u00a0awards\u00a0with\u00a0AusRomToday.<\/p>\n<p>I spent\u00a0the whole day doing &#8230; well, nothing of any use really &#8211; I was just so thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>Flight to Coorah Creek is nominated as Book of The Year, and Bring Me Sunshine is nominated as Cover of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Any author who is honest will say award nominations are truly exciting&#8230;. and these are the very best type of awards &#8211; let me tell you why&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They are reader awards.<\/p>\n<p>Praise from one&#8217;s peers &#8211; or from a panel of judges is great. Such a nomination tells me I am doing a good job.<\/p>\n<p>But a reader&#8217;s nomination tells me I have touched my reader&#8217;s hearts. I have\u00a0given them satisfaction &#8211; a good return\u00a0for the money &#8211; and more importantly the time they have invested when they bought my book.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s no small thing to me. Readers are the most important part of this story telling process. Writing is a very solitary job &#8211; and knowing I have connected with my readers through my books is very important to me.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much to the readers who voted for me &#8211; I love each and every one of you.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5252\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bms-cover-of-teh-year-e1415028304738.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5252\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bms-cover-of-teh-year-e1415028304738.png\" alt=\"My name is on the nomination - but the credit is due to fab designer Berni Stevens - who gave me a cover with penguins on it.\" width=\"450\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My name is on the nomination &#8211; but the credit is due to fab designer Berni Stevens &#8211; who gave me a cover with penguins on it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And speaking of voting &#8211; you can still vote&#8230;. right up until the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AusRomToday\/photos\/a.742129569158251.1073741835.620418747996001\/742957209075487\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to\u00a0go to the voting\u00a0page for Flight To Coorah Creek&#8230; just like the Facebook picture\u00a0to vote.<\/p>\n<p>And this<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AusRomToday\/photos\/a.742129079158300.1073741834.620418747996001\/742955055742369\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\"> link <\/a>will take you to vote for Bring Me Sunshine where you can also vote by liking the picture.<\/p>\n<p>And thank you AusRomToday for helping authors and readers connect.\u00a0You are wonderful too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Oh my! Wow! And&#8230; and&#8230;. This week I learned\u00a0two of my books are\u00a0finalists for\u00a0awards\u00a0with\u00a0AusRomToday. I spent\u00a0the whole day doing &#8230; well, nothing of any use really &#8211; I was just so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g6jm-1mG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}