{"id":9880,"date":"2015-02-18T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2015-01-16T22:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T11:26:52","slug":"what-music-inspires-jennjmcleod-inspirationalmusic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/what-music-inspires-jennjmcleod-inspirationalmusic\/","title":{"rendered":"What Music Inspires @JennJMcLeod #InspirationalMusic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Who is Jenn J McLeod?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jenn-young-pianist.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9881\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jenn-young-pianist-209x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Jenn - young pianist\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jenn-young-pianist-209x300.jpeg 209w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jenn-young-pianist.jpeg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>Jenn J McLeod ~ Come home to the country . . . to small towns keeping big secrets<\/p>\n<p>When Jenn J McLeod quit Sydney\u2019s corporate communications chaos, she bought a little caf\u00e9 in a small town and ran a unique, dog-friendly B&amp;B in country NSW. Home now is a fifth wheeler caravan, her days spent writing heart-warming tales of Australian country life that weave intricate tapestries of friendship, family, love and contemporary issues.\u00a0Readers and reviewers alike enthusiastically received Jenn\u2019s debut, <em>House for all Seasons<\/em>, placing it at #5 on the 2013 Nielsen\u2019s Best Selling Debut Novel list. <em>Simmering Season<\/em> is book two in her Seasons Collection, followed by her third novel, <em>Season of Shadow and Light<\/em>, with a fourth Seasons Collection novel due 2016.<\/p>\n<h3>Where can I read more about this fabulous author?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennjmcleod.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.jennjmcleod.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What music do they like?<\/h3>\n<p>I come from a very musical family, and started early, as you cans see!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, my keyboard of choice ended up being the computer.\u00a0But because I grew up singing, I absolutely CANNOT play music WHILE I write. (I end up singing along.) But I do play a song\u00a0to get me into the mood to write my small town stories. It&#8217;s called <em>Small Town Stories<\/em>. Here is the link:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/txakEMJ3H4g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-AU&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Jenn J McLeod? Jenn J McLeod ~ Come home to the country . . . to small towns keeping big secrets When Jenn J McLeod quit Sydney\u2019s corporate communications chaos, she bought a little caf\u00e9 in a small town and ran a unique, dog-friendly B&amp;B in country NSW.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/what-music-inspires-jennjmcleod-inspirationalmusic\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[836,1099,1098],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-authors","tag-jenn-j-mcleod","tag-small-town-stories","tag-twin-kennedy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10020,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions\/10020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}