{"id":103,"date":"2009-01-17T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T03:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/17\/lady-janes-salon\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:59:35","slug":"lady-janes-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/17\/lady-janes-salon\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Launching Another Reading Series Next Month&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image102\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ladyjane-feb09-guests.jpg\" alt=\"ladyjane-feb09-guests.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I&#8217;m not the driving force behind Lady Jane&#8217;s Salon, a new reading series dedicated to romance writing that is debuting next month at NYC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madamex.com\">Madame X<\/a> with guest stars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreadarif.com\">Andrea Pickens<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopetarr.com\">Hope Tarr<\/a>. But when Hope, along with novelists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayarodale.com\/\">Maya Rodale<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leannareneehieber.com\">Leanna Renee Hieber<\/a>, asked if I would be interested in hosting a series that also serves as a monthly fundraising drive for her non-profit organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.share-the-love.org\">Share the Love<\/a>, I immediately accepted. The group distributes &#8220;gently used&#8221; romance novels to institutions that serve women&#8212;domestic violence shelters, halfway houses, prison libraries, and so on&#8212;promoting literacy <i>and<\/i> optimism. I&#8217;m excited to be involved with the organization, and I hope those of you in New York will consider coming to our events.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea and Hope will be reading on Monday, February 2, at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 or a paperback romance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image101\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ladyjane-feb2009.jpg\" alt=\"ladyjane-feb2009.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I&#8217;m not the driving force behind Lady Jane&#8217;s Salon, a new reading series dedicated to romance writing that is debuting next month at NYC&#8217;s Madame X with guest stars Andrea Pickens and Hope Tarr. But when Hope, along with novelists Maya Rodale and Leanna Renee Hieber, asked if I would be interested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}