{"id":2127,"date":"2011-09-03T06:56:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T11:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2011-09-03T06:56:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T11:56:32","slug":"book-lovers-blog-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Book Lovers Blog Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessstrassnerbooks.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/3FBMl.gif\" alt=\"Create your own banner at mybannermaker.com!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my first book lovers blog hop and I&#8217;m thrilled to be taking part in it. I first read about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/loveahappyending.com\"> loveahappyending&#8217;s <\/a> featured author <a href=\"http:\/\/jessstrassnerbooks.blogspot.com\/\"> Jess Strassner&#8217;s <\/a>blog. It&#8217;s a first for her, too, hosting such a beast so it should be great fun for all of us &#8220;newbies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I interpreted the rules correctly, I have to tell you about a book I&#8217;m reading or what I&#8217;m writing. We&#8217;ll the writing isn&#8217;t going well at all. I&#8217;ve hit yet another brick wall in the particular segment I&#8217;m working on so have gone back to reading.<\/p>\n<p>The book I currently have open on my Sony reader is <strong>Souvenirs<\/strong> by Barbara Phinney which is available on Smashwords <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/search?query=barbara+phinney\">here<\/a>. I won it at the ORWA self-publishing workshop a while back. Speaking of that workshop, I still have to blog about it.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m up to. Now I think I&#8217;ll hop over to another blog and see what&#8217;s happening there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first book lovers blog hop and I&#8217;m thrilled to be taking part in it. I first read about it on loveahappyending&#8217;s featured author Jess Strassner&#8217;s blog. It&#8217;s a first for her, too, hosting such a beast so it should be great fun for all of us &#8220;newbies&#8221;. 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