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\"\"<\/a>A big, big thank you to all of you who made yesterday\u2019s eBook launch of Journey to Casablanca <\/em>such a success. I do hope all of you who downloaded the book and those who pre-ordered it are enjoying reading it. There have been some great reviews posted already. Please don\u2019t forget to post of a review if you asked for a pre-publication copy.<\/p>\n

To say that the first four weeks of September were busy is tantamount to calling the Atlantic Ocean a trifle damp \u2013 something of an understatement. Two major events occurred that took a considerable amount of preparation.<\/p>\n

The first I\u2019ve already mentioned \u2013 the book launch. There is a lot to be done in the final weeks \u2013 working through the m\/s returned by my eagle-eyed proof-reader (many, many thanks, Carrie! What would I do without you?); recruiting pre-readers; converting the word.doc into an epub file ready to send to my pre-readers and uploading the m\/s onto Amazon. All very time consuming.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What made life so frenetic was that I was also given a date for the op on my right foot -23rd<\/sup> September. I needed to have the same work done as I\u2019d had on my left foot back in April. At least this time I knew exactly what to expect. The operation itself only involves relatively minor day surgery but it does mean spending the next 4-6 weeks with my leg up on a stool and unable to move around. Although my husband is happy to take over the cooking and other essential household tasks, I wanted to do as much as possible to make things easy for him. Consequently, on top of getting the latest book ready to go live on Amazon, I spent the first four weeks of September \u2018Spring cleaning\u2019 the house, baking and making ready meals to stuff the freezer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last April and May, I spent my enforced confinement in the chair writing the bulk of Journey to Casablanca <\/em>and was planning on using October to do a similar job on In the Shadow of the Sphynx<\/em> \u2013 another Harry and Aunt Jessica mystery. I confess I haven\u2019t made a great deal of progress so far, but time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A big, big thank you to all of you who made yesterday\u2019s eBook launch of Journey to Casablanca such a success. I do hope all of you who downloaded the book and those who pre-ordered it are enjoying reading it. There have been some great reviews posted already. Please don\u2019t forget to post of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[156,213,212],"class_list":{"0":"post-2899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book-launch","7":"tag-aunt-jessica-mystery","8":"tag-cruise-mystery","9":"tag-journey-to-casablanca","10":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}