{"id":478,"date":"2013-07-19T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2013-07-19T20:50:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T10:50:06","slug":"bookgrove-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"BOOKGROVE VISIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weekends ago I drove from Castlemaine to Ocean Grove. Stacey Moore of Bookgrove\u00a0 organised an event in her lovely bookshop and around 25 girls turned up to hear me talk about <em>Verity Sparks Lost and Found<\/em>. I read a Verity investigation that was left out of the first book &#8211; which I have posted under the heading <strong>&#8220;Verity&#8217;s Investigations&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 and talked about writing the books and answered lots and lots of searching questions.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-475\" alt=\"2photo\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2photo1.jpg\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" \/><\/a>It was great fun, and lovely to meet so many eager readers. There were so many intelligent questions about writing (including a hand-delivered letter from a reader called Piper) that I decided I have to make a section\u00a0 on tips for writers. Have a look at my first suggestion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weekends ago I drove from Castlemaine to Ocean Grove. Stacey Moore of Bookgrove\u00a0 organised an event in her lovely bookshop and around 25 girls turned up to hear me talk about Verity Sparks Lost and Found. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verity-sparks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}