{"id":79351,"date":"2018-01-25T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=79351"},"modified":"2018-01-25T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T04:13:09","slug":"thank-you-sistas-thrilled-about-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=79351","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Sistas Thrilled About Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_79352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79352\" style=\"width: 656px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79352\" src=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sistas-Thrilled-About-Reading-Book-Club-Baltimore-MD2-1024x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sistas-Thrilled-About-Reading-Book-Club-Baltimore-MD2-1024x448.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sistas-Thrilled-About-Reading-Book-Club-Baltimore-MD2-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sistas-Thrilled-About-Reading-Book-Club-Baltimore-MD2-768x336.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sistas Thrilled About Reading Book Club &#8211; Baltimore, MD January 20, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am still savoring the spectacular Saturday afternoon I spent with Baltimore&#8217;s Sistas Thrilled About Reading Book Club. Member, Jean Moore, whom I met at the 2017 Baltimore Book Festival, extended the invitation to surprise the members of the club when they discussed my novel, <em>Provenance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jean told them I was a friend of hers just sitting in on the club because I was considering becoming a member. It was a wonderful opportunity to hear the remarkable group of ladies discuss their\u00a0honest impressions of the book, raise questions about the characters and speculate just what the author was thinking.\u00a0It was as much\u00a0fun, after Jean revealed that I was the author, to have the opportunity to answer their questions, explore the character&#8217;s motivations and actions and, gain insight into readers&#8217; perceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Jean, and the entire book club for a great afternoon of conversation and commandery. I will definitely\u00a0take you up on your offer to come back when <em>Promise<\/em>, the sequel to <em>Provenance,<\/em> is published in the fall of 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still savoring the spectacular Saturday afternoon I spent with Baltimore&#8217;s Sistas Thrilled About Reading Book Club. Member, Jean Moore, whom I met at the 2017 Baltimore Book Festival, extended the invitation to surprise the members of the club when they discussed my novel, Provenance. Jean told them I was a friend of hers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[176,140,12],"tags":[142,124,143],"class_list":["post-79351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-appearances","category-book-clubs","category-gratitude","tag-african-american-book-clubs","tag-provenance-by-donna-drew-sawyer","tag-provenance-a-novel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79354,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79351\/revisions\/79354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}