{"id":690,"date":"2013-10-15T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/honorable-mention-at-the-southern-california-book-festival\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:49:18","slug":"honorable-mention-at-the-southern-california-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/honorable-mention-at-the-southern-california-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"HONORABLE MENTION at the Southern California Book Festival!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t win, but I am very pleased that I received an honorable mention for my novel, <i>The Coin<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link (for those who want to see original web page): &nbsp;http:\/\/southerncaliforniabookfestival.com\/ &nbsp;(Click on the link &#8220;List of Winners&#8221; and you will get the next page with the mentions). <\/p>\n<p>So, so excited!!!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the mention:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;\"><b>GENERAL FICTION<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: City of Lost Dreams \u2013 Magnus Flyte<\/p>\n<p>RUNNER-UP: The Eisenhower Enigma \u2013 John Romero<\/p>\n<p>HONORABLE MENTIONS:<\/b><\/div>\n<ul style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;\">\n<li>Double A Blues \u2013 Patrick Rockenbach<\/li>\n<li>Motor Dolls \u2013 Lori Bentley Law<\/li>\n<li>The Rockin\u2019 Chair \u2013 Steven Manchester<\/li>\n<li>L.A., My Love \u2013 William Wallis<\/li>\n<li>Double A Blues \u2013 Patrick Rockenbach<\/li>\n<li>Revealed \u2013 Mary Ballard<\/li>\n<li>The Angry Woman Suite \u2013 Lee Fulbright<\/li>\n<li>Counsel of Ravens \u2013 M.M. Gornell<\/li>\n<li>The Hive \u2013 Karl J. Morgan<\/li>\n<li>Sweetgrass Book II Crimson \u2013 Patricia Ann Kuess<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: cyan;\">The Coin \u2013 Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Tattered Lace \u2013 Suzanne Grant<\/li>\n<li>Sleeper\u2019s Run \u2013 Henry Mosquera<\/li>\n<li>Ursula\u2019s Yahrtzeit Candle \u2013 Steven R. Berger<\/li>\n<li>Efraim\u2019s Eye \u2013 William Peace<\/li>\n<li>The Fifth Estate \u2013 Steven R. Berger<\/li>\n<li>The Last Moon \u2013 DeAnn Lubell<\/li>\n<li>The Death of Johnny Ace \u2013 Steve Bergsman<\/li>\n<li>The Village Sang to the Sea \u2013 Bruce McAllister<\/li>\n<li>Tranquility \u2013 Robert Mendoza<\/li>\n<li>Honor Knows No Borders \u2013 John Sharer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t win, but I am very pleased that I received an honorable mention for my novel, The Coin. Here is the link (for those who want to see original web page): &nbsp;http:\/\/southerncaliforniabookfestival.com\/ &nbsp;(Click on the link &#8220;List of Winners&#8221; and you will get the next page with the mentions). So, so excited!!! Here is the &#8230; <a title=\"HONORABLE MENTION at the Southern California Book Festival!!!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/honorable-mention-at-the-southern-california-book-festival\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about HONORABLE MENTION at the Southern California Book Festival!!!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}