{"id":597,"date":"2013-10-07T14:20:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saraalva.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2013-10-07T14:20:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:20:37","slug":"some-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Some Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, as I&#8217;ve been traveling and working behind the scenes to get everything ready for <em>Silent<\/em>. I thought it was time for a few updates:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saraalva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/FinalistSM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-598\" alt=\"FinalistSM\" src=\"http:\/\/saraalva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/FinalistSM.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/FinalistSM.jpg 200w, https:\/\/saraalva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/FinalistSM-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*<em>Social Skills <\/em>is a finalist for the 2013 Rainbow Awards (YA category), and it has amazing company. As cliche as it may sound, it&#8217;s an incredible honor just to see my title listed with those of such talented authors. I love the face on the badge because it&#8217;s similar to the face I made when I heard the news :P. You can find all the finalists <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org\/3898883.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*Audiobook production for <em>Social Skills<\/em> is momentarily on hold. My previous narrator didn&#8217;t work out, but I do have an extra special narrator signed on to the project now. He&#8217;s busy for the next two months but should be ready to record by December\/January.<\/p>\n<p>*I signed up for RainbowCon in Tampa because the dates were really convenient for me, and a lot of the events look super interesting\/informative. It&#8217;ll be my first ever official &#8220;author&#8221; appearance. Eek.<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/saraalva.com\/?page_id=400\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Silent<\/em><\/a> will be released later this month. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, as I&#8217;ve been traveling and working behind the scenes to get everything ready for Silent. I thought it was time for a few updates: &nbsp; *Social Skills is a finalist for the 2013 Rainbow Awards (YA category), and it has amazing company. As cliche as it may sound, it&#8217;s an incredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}