{"id":1476,"date":"2012-03-30T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/2012\/03\/luke-won\/"},"modified":"2015-07-28T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:22:24","slug":"luke-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/2012\/03\/30\/luke-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Won!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Absolution_w4719_300.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Absolution_w4719_300.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m so excited to announce that <i>Absolution <\/i>has won the EPIC Award for best romantic suspense of 2011!<\/p>\n<p>I actually found out by accident while I was on holiday. I happened to be on Twitter, checking to see if I had any messages, and saw my name mentioned with the EPIC convention. No one sent me an email or anything, so I had to check on my own to see if I really had won, and indeed I had! I had a mojito to celebrate at dinner that night \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You all know how much I adore Luke, so this win really tickled me. I think it&#8217;s my best book (along with <i>Relentless<\/i>), although I heartily agree it&#8217;s not a stand alone book. Without reading at least a few other books in the series, <i>Absolution <\/i>won&#8217;t have nearly the same emotional impact for the reader. At least in my opinion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-T69iUp0o2rE\/T3YMPAj0fmI\/AAAAAAAAAtM\/VuBQbCAMCkM\/s1600\/Deadly+Descent.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Deadly-Descent.jpg\" width=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I also just found out that <i>Deadly Descent<\/i> is a finalist in the New England Romance Writer&#8217;s published contest, though it didn&#8217;t final in the RITA Awards (aww&#8230;). Fingers crossed that Dev and Cam place in the top three.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my news for now; I&#8217;ll post the cover for <i>Darkest Caress<\/i> next week. Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited to announce that Absolution has won the EPIC Award for best romantic suspense of 2011! I actually found out by accident while I was on holiday. I happened to be on Twitter, checking to see if I had any messages, and saw my name mentioned with the EPIC convention. No one sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29,26,42],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-absolution","tag-contest","tag-deadly-descent"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Absolution_w4719_300.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleacross.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}