{"id":1474,"date":"2009-04-14T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2009-04-09T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T22:25:37","slug":"vanessa-kelly-guest-blogging-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/vanessa-kelly-guest-blogging-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Kelly Guest Blogging Tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hope everyone had a fantastic long weekend. I&#8217;m still focusing on finishing my WIP, so isn&#8217;t it fortunate that I have a talented guest blogger and book give-away happening tomorrow? Debut Regency historical romance author, <a href=\"http:\/\/vanessakellyauthor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vanessa Kelly<\/a>, will talk about why she loves the regency period and will give away a copy of her April release, <strong>MASTERING THE MARQUESS<\/strong>, which, naturally, is set in the regency period. Yes, all you history buffs, you can start salivating&#8230;now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Back Cover Copy for MASTERING THE MARQUESS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p>Since the loss of her parents, Meredith Burnley has contented herself with a solitary life looking after her half-sister, Annabel.\u00a0 But Meredith&#8217;s peace is shattered when her uncle schemes to marry her off to his son in order to gain her inheritance.\u00a0 Desperate, Meredith has only one choice:\u00a0 to flee with Annabel to their estranged grandparents&#8217; home.\u00a0 But their arrival soon reignites a family scandal\u2014and kindles unexpected romance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Happily reunited with the girls, Annabel&#8217;s grandmother resolves to convince her nephew, Stephen Mallory, the Marquess of Silverton, to abandon his rakish lifestyle and wed Annabel.\u00a0 Stephen is clearly captivated\u2014but with the wrong sister.\u00a0 Determined to make Meredith his own, Stephen embarks on a seduction that will leave her with no choice but to surrender to his touch&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That naughty, naughty Stephen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tomorrow, please leave a comment to enter to win a paperback copy of <strong>MASTERING THE MARQUESS.<\/strong> Entries be accepted until midnight, April 15th, Pacific Standard Time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>About Vanessa:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1477\" title=\"kelly_pic\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kelly_pic.jpg\" alt=\"kelly_pic\" width=\"80\" height=\"91\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vanessa Kelly was born and raised in New Jersey, but eventually migrated north to Canada.\u00a0 She holds a Master&#8217;s Degree from Rutgers University, and went on to attend the Ph.D. program in English Literature at the University of Toronto.\u00a0 Alas, she didn&#8217;t finish her degree, but she did spend many happy hours studying the works of 18<sup>th<\/sup> century British authors and writing about the madness of King George III.\u00a0 She left graduate school to work as a researcher and writer for a large public sector organization.\u00a0 Vanessa now devotes her time to writing historical romance, and hopes that her readers will find her books as much fun to read as they were to write.\u00a0 She currently lives with her husband in Ottawa.\u00a0 You can visit her on the web at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanessakellyauthor.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.vanessakellyauthor.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone had a fantastic long weekend. I&#8217;m still focusing on finishing my WIP, so isn&#8217;t it fortunate that I have a talented guest blogger and book give-away happening tomorrow? Debut Regency historical romance author, Vanessa Kelly, will talk about why she loves the regency period and will give away a copy of her&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/vanessa-kelly-guest-blogging-tomorrow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vanessa Kelly Guest Blogging Tomorrow!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-authors","category-give-aways","category-guest-bloggers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}