{"id":318,"date":"2013-05-03T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindythomson.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/03\/an-irish-book-launch"},"modified":"2013-05-03T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:14:00","slug":"an-irish-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/03\/an-irish-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"An Irish Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Ballina photo by\u00a0eric.delignieres<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When I was in Ireland, I had the unique opportunity to attend Kate Kerrigan’s book launch!<\/p>\n

The event was held in the beautiful little town of Ballina (Bow-lynn-ah)–I pronounced it wrong continually until I heard Kate say it. The town is near her home and the place where her mother Moira lives.<\/p>\n

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Her book, the one just launched in Ireland, is the final in a series about an Irish immigrant who makes a home in Hollywood, and the party was at a beauty salon. Read her blog post about it here<\/a>. (I actually appear in the background of one of the pictures she has up on her blog. I was on my way back from the bathroom when the costume award was being given. Yep, a photobomb by yours truly!)<\/p>\n

I met Kate through my blog, www.novelpastimes.com<\/a>, where I interviewed her. About a year and a half ago I had another unique opportunity. I learned she was going to Manhattan on book tour just the time I planned to be there to research my book. She invited me to a book blogger luncheon hosted by her publisher, Harper Collins, at the HC headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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That’s me in front of HC holding Kate’s book.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The luncheon was an intimate gathering where we heard insides stories from the author, the best kinds!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Besides being a delightfully nice person, she is a wonderful writer and I’ve enjoyed her books. You should check them out<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ballina photo by\u00a0eric.delignieres When I was in Ireland, I had the unique opportunity to attend Kate Kerrigan’s book launch! The event was held in the beautiful little town of Ballina (Bow-lynn-ah)–I pronounced it wrong continually until I heard Kate say it. The town is near her home and the place where her mother Moira lives….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ellis-island","category-ireland","category-kate-kerrigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}