{"id":8192,"date":"2018-02-08T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2020-12-30T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T15:44:53","slug":"i-am-honoured-to-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=8192","title":{"rendered":"I am honoured to announce&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8193\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8193\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WBbTC_1400-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WBbTC_1400-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WBbTC_1400-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WBbTC_1400-668x1024.jpg 668w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WBbTC_1400.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank you to the readers who liked Ed and Helen&#8217;s story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am absolutely thrilled to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?page_id=7895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wedding Bells By The Creek<\/a> has been shortlisted for the RoNA ROSE Award, presented by the Romantic Novelists&#8217; Association. The award is for a romantic novella, and I am one of five on the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>This book tells the story of an older couple &#8211; who have taken more than their fair share of knocks in their lives. It&#8217;s a book that says love and romance is for everyone &#8211; not just the young and beautiful.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/romanticnovelistsassociation.org\/news_article\/rona-shortlists-2018-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RoNA Awards<\/a> are a very special accolade, and this is the second time one of my Coorah Creek books has been on the shortlist. Last year Little Girl Lost won the RoNA Award for an Epic romance. I hardly dare\u00a0hope that Wedding Bells by The Creek does that well.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the reader panel who voted for my book. And thank you to my family and friends and fellow writers for your support over the years. I could not have down this without you.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8198\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8198\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rose-shortlist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rose-shortlist.jpg 992w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rose-shortlist-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rose-shortlist-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congrats to all the shortlisted authors. It&#8217;s great to share this with you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am absolutely thrilled to announce that Wedding Bells By The Creek has been shortlisted for the RoNA ROSE Award, presented by the Romantic Novelists&#8217; Association. The award is for a romantic&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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g6jm-288","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192","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=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}