{"id":698,"date":"2008-08-06T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2008-08-06T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T17:26:10","slug":"and-the-award-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"And the award goes to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/deanna_rita_award.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-699 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/deanna_rita_award.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/deanna_rita_award.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/deanna_rita_award-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>I was absolutely thrilled today when I stopped by Deanna Raybourn&#8217;s blog and discovered that she had won the 2008 RITA* for Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements. As Read This! followers surely know, Deanna is much beloved in these parts, and her books are ever popular recommendations. {You haven&#8217;t read them yet? Well&#8230;Stop by and check out <em>Silent in the Grave<\/em> as soon as possible.}<\/p>\n<p>Congrats, Ms. Raybourn!!<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about her win &#8211; from the lady herself &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/deannaraybourn.typepad.com\/blog_a_gogo\/2008\/08\/in-which-i-am-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*The RITA awards are given out by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwanational.org\/cs\/contests_and_awards\/rita_awards\" target=\"_blank\">Romance Writers of America<\/a>. Still, don&#8217;t let the &#8220;romance&#8221; in the award&#8217;s moniker put you off; Deanna Raybourn&#8217;s books are strong, intelligent historical mysteries with charming characters that keep you coming back for more. Like I said, highly recommended!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was absolutely thrilled today when I stopped by Deanna Raybourn&#8217;s blog and discovered that she had won the 2008 RITA* for Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements. As Read This! followers surely know, Deanna is much beloved in these parts, and her books are ever popular recommendations. {You haven&#8217;t read them yet? Well&#8230;Stop by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-awards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-bg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}