{"id":6242,"date":"2012-05-04T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T08:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2012-05-04T08:21:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T08:21:27","slug":"nifty-plugs-for-malarky-ii-modern-tonic-choose-malarky-as-may-book-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/05\/04\/nifty-plugs-for-malarky-ii-modern-tonic-choose-malarky-as-may-book-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Nifty plugs for Malarky II: Modern Tonic choose Malarky as May Book Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was particularly delighted to learn this week that my novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moderntonic.com\/2012\/05\/02\/may-book-picks\/\">Malarky has been selected as a May Book Pick by Modern Tonic<\/a> (Gay approved pop culture gems before they&#8217;ve been co-opted by everyone else)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Modern Tonic had to say about Malarky<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re all for quirky, character-driven novels, <strong>and this insightful and sharply funny book delivers in spades.<\/strong> The protagonist, \u201cOur Woman,\u201d leads a working class Irish farm life, but after seeing her Afghanistan-bound son engage in hanky-panky with another man in the fields, and learning that her deceased husband may not have been the man she thought, goes on a truth-seeking odyssey of self-discovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was especially thrilled to find Malarky on a list that contained the wonderful Alison Becdel&#8217;s new book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was particularly delighted to learn this week that my novel Malarky has been selected as a May Book Pick by Modern Tonic (Gay approved pop culture gems before they&#8217;ve been co-opted by everyone else) Here&#8217;s what Modern Tonic had to say about Malarky &#8220;We\u2019re all for quirky, character-driven novels, and this insightful and sharply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[158,169,748,752,777,805],"class_list":["post-6242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-alison-bechel","tag-anakana-schofield","tag-malarky","tag-malarky-novel","tag-may-book-pick","tag-modern-tonic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}