{"id":6293,"date":"2013-08-17T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2013-06-30T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:01:38","slug":"book-launch-day-for-a-shadow-in-the-past-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=6293","title":{"rendered":"BOOK LAUNCH DAY for A SHADOW IN THE PAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">BOOK LAUNCH DAY for A SHADOW IN THE PAST in SCOTLAND<\/h2>\n<p>After years of dreaming and wondering if my dream would ever come true, I&#8217;m happy to say that my Scottish Book Launch of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>A Shadow in the Past<\/strong><\/span> is happening. Yay! There was a lot of hard work and rejection slips along the way, but it&#8217;s finally happening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6292\" alt=\"book launch poster with quotes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/book-launch-poster-with-quotes.jpg\" width=\"477\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/book-launch-poster-with-quotes.jpg 477w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/book-launch-poster-with-quotes-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But why is it so important to me that I launch my book in Scotland after being at its debut in the US then hosting a launch in my hometown?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s this. My father came to Canada as a Scottish Home Child through the auspices of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarriers.org.uk\/resource\/trace-your-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Orphan Homes of Scotland<\/a> in 1930. I fell in love with the country and its people right from the time I stepped off the plane on my first trip in 1993. Subsequent trips followed and the spark of a story came to me inspired by the area surrounding my father&#8217;s birthplace. That story grew into a novel and I promised myself that when I got published, I would host a launch in the Rannes Hall in Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOK LAUNCH DAY for A SHADOW IN THE PAST in SCOTLAND After years of dreaming and wondering if my dream would ever come true, I&#8217;m happy to say that my Scottish Book Launch of A Shadow in the Past is happening. Yay! There was a lot of hard work and rejection slips along the way, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=6293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BOOK LAUNCH DAY for A SHADOW IN THE PAST<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[72,53,47,12,41,17,6,33,15,65,21,257,44,18,22,271],"tags":[1013,1006,294,256,86,1003,274,81],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4rv-publishing","category-aberdeenshire","category-appearances","category-authors","category-book-launch","category-family","category-novels","category-publicity","category-publishing","category-readers","category-reading","category-roots","category-scotland","category-travel","category-writing","category-ya-fiction","tag-4rv-publishing","tag-aberdeenshire","tag-book-launch-2","tag-kennethmont","tag-novel","tag-scotland","tag-time-slip","tag-time-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BOOK LAUNCH DAY for A SHADOW IN THE PAST - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Book launch day for A Shadow in the Past... in Scotland. 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