{"id":9059,"date":"2017-10-26T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:10:21","slug":"golden-heart-finalists-where-are-we-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/golden-heart-finalists-where-are-we-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Heart Finalists &#8211; Where Are We Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WhereSheBelongs_EbookTradeC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7051 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WhereSheBelongs_EbookTradeC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WhereSheBelongs_EbookTradeC.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WhereSheBelongs_EbookTradeC-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WhereSheBelongs_EbookTradeC-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cindyprocter-king.com\/Books\/where_she_belongs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHERE SHE BELONGS<\/a> finaled in the prestigious Romance Writers of America Golden Heart contest. Yep, it&#8217;s mentioned on some of my covers. Most every year, the group of finalists creates an online sisterhood. My year, 2007, we called ourselves the Bond Girls in honor of &#8217;07 and created a wonderful community as well as a group blog that took a lot of time and effort. It was beautiful, well-run and well-organized (I say as one of several volunteers behind the scenes), but unfortunately only a few months into the blog&#8217;s inception the Internet was hit with a mega-gremlin, and the Bond Girls blog suffered an untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>Another Golden Heart &#8220;class,&#8221; the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood, survives to this day with a healthy group blog that appears here to stay. Today, I and other members of the Bond Girls as well as the Wild Cards (the GH finalists from &#8217;05) are featured on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubyslipperedsisterhood.com\/where-are-they-now-the-classes-of-2005-2007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruby Slippered blog<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubyslipperedsisterhood.com\/where-are-they-now-the-classes-of-2005-2007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hop on over<\/a> to catch up on my own goings-on, as well as several others, including B.C. writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanlyons.ca\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Lyons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2007, WHERE SHE BELONGS finaled in the prestigious Romance Writers of America Golden Heart contest. Yep, it&#8217;s mentioned on some of my covers. Most every year, the group of finalists creates an online sisterhood. My year, 2007, we called ourselves the Bond Girls in honor of &#8217;07 and created a wonderful community as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/golden-heart-finalists-where-are-we-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golden Heart Finalists &#8211; Where Are We Now?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-publishing-journeys","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","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=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}