{"id":789,"date":"2013-05-13T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/welcome-to-my-blog\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:50:15","slug":"welcome-to-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/welcome-to-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my Blog!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am extremely excited to share my blog with you, which is dedicated to my award-winning, written work, The Coin, The Book of Hours,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0The Fish Tank: And Other Short Stories<\/em>. \u00a0My novels are romantic suspense. The first, The Coin,<\/em> is\u00a0set in the C\u00f4<\/span>te d’Azur, France (where I lived for five years) and where the action of the novel takes place.
\nThe Coin<\/em> was a labor of love from the very beginning, especially after creating the characters of Richard and Gabriela. \u00a0The story was born out of an outing with my children while hiking the mountains near my home in Grasse. \u00a0That day, I did find several coins in a clearing abutting a path. \u00a0It sparked the ‘what if’ scenario and the rest is, as they say, the novel. My next novel,\u00a0The Book of Hours,\u00a0<\/em>is set in California and in London. The third one, a short story collection, is another labor of love, especially the section “Soul Songs” which are based on my own journey as an exile from Cuba.
\nUse this blog to ask questions about the regions, about the characters, about the plot and how I came up with the ideas. \u00a0Show your enthusiasm. \u00a0Post pictures of the area, if you know them or have visited them. \u00a0Share with friends your thoughts about the chapters, or the short stories, but I will ask all of you a favor: \u00a0No spoilers!
\nCome visit! \u00a0Visit often and stay in tune for the progress of my next book, Hanging Softly in the Night: A Detective Nick Larson thriller<\/em>.<\/i>
\nGood reading!!
\nMaria Elena Alonso-Sierra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am extremely excited to share my blog with you, which is dedicated to my award-winning, written work, The Coin, The Book of Hours,\u00a0and\u00a0The Fish Tank: And Other Short Stories. \u00a0My novels are romantic suspense. The first, The Coin, is\u00a0set in the C\u00f4te d’Azur, France (where I lived for five years) and where the action … 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":[7,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-author","category-about-the-novel","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}