{"id":236,"date":"2013-05-28T17:50:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=236"},"modified":"2013-05-28T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:50:55","slug":"i-am-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2013\/05\/i-am-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"I AM a Writer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I opened my monthly e-mail from Amazon and screamed out loud.<\/p>\n

In the last month the kindle\u00a0sales of my books – What’s Eating Me, Singles’ Holiday and Sweet Lady – were FOUR TIMES my previous best!\u00a0 I was – and still am – ecstatic.<\/p>\n

Okay – I’ve got a long way to go before I’m in the same earning bracket as JK Rowling.\u00a0 But the first step on the road and all that.\u00a0 And it’s really spurred me on to get on with Singles in India (although today’s been taken up with things other than writing).<\/p>\n

People I don’t know are buying my books.\u00a0 People are going through Amazon’s lists and choosing MY books.\u00a0 That’s exciting and scary at the same time!<\/p>\n

I’m a writer!\u00a0 I’m a writer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I opened my monthly e-mail from Amazon and screamed out loud. In the last month the kindle\u00a0sales of my books – What’s Eating Me, Singles’ Holiday and Sweet Lady – were FOUR TIMES my previous best!\u00a0 I was – … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,8,5,46],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-singles-in-india","tag-singles-holiday","tag-sweet-lady","tag-whats-eating-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}