{"id":268,"date":"2014-05-02T07:48:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T07:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?p=268"},"modified":"2014-05-02T08:18:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:18:56","slug":"a-bird-in-the-house-my-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"A Bird in the House: my first published novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first novel came out this week. It&#8217;s exciting to hold a copy in my hand and to think how long it took me to get there.\u00a0 It has, at times, felt as if I have been running a marathon for the past two years. Now it is out, another hard slog begins&#8230;the dreaded publicity and marketing.\u00a0 Really I&#8217;d like to wander off to another desert and forget about that side of things but that would be a pity. It&#8217;s a necessary job if I want the book to sell. A necessary job like the ironing &#8211; another task I tend to put off until I have almost nothing left to wear but socks and knickers (surely no one irons those!). So, the novel&#8230;.it&#8217;s written, it&#8217;s published&#8230;it now needs a little TLC&#8230;.and then there&#8217;s the next one to write&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bith_web_pic.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[268]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bith_web_pic-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"bith_web_pic\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bith_web_pic-192x300.jpg 192w, http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bith_web_pic.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first novel came out this week. It&#8217;s exciting to hold a copy in my hand and to think how long it took me to get there.\u00a0 It has, at times, felt as if I have been running a marathon for the past two years. Now it is out, another hard slog begins&#8230;the dreaded publicity &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?p=268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Bird in the House: my first published novel<\/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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}