{"id":9138,"date":"2014-05-07T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T05:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2014-05-07T15:27:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T05:27:05","slug":"a-very-interesting-spotlight-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/a-very-interesting-spotlight-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Interesting Spotlight&#8230; On Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m over on <em>Need Help Write Now<\/em> being interviewed by the very lovely and influential Eda Utku about my favourite books, geography, themes I explore in my writing, inspiration and my next writing project&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ZenaShapterChair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9139\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ZenaShapterChair-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"ZenaShapterChair\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ZenaShapterChair-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ZenaShapterChair-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Spotlight on Zena Shapter<\/h2>\n<p class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Zena Shapter is a British-English fiction writer, published author and social media consultant whose life is filled with stories stemming from a very interesting upbringing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Zena grew up in Bournemouth in England\u2019s South Coast in a hotel owned by her parents. Her father was the chairman of Bournemouth\u2019s Carnival Committee. Growing up, Zena had access to an ever changing array of colourful people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Then at uni she majored in virtually any and every principle under the sun to possibly get a wider understanding of the world around us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I have a sense that Zena, like every good writer, is a very curious person who longs for knowledge and has a passion for her readers to catch a glimpse of her observations&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Out of all the places you\u2019ve lived, Zena, which geographical location do you find yourself writing about the most?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good question! Where do you think I write about most?<\/p>\n<p>Find out by reading the rest of that guest post <a title=\"NHWN\" href=\"http:\/\/needhelpwritenow.com\/spotlight-zena-shapter\/\" target=\"_blank\">over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m over on Need Help Write Now being interviewed by the very lovely and influential Eda Utku about my favourite books, geography, themes I explore in my writing, inspiration and my next writing project&#8230; Spotlight on Zena Shapter Zena Shapter is a British-English fiction writer, published author and\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/a-very-interesting-spotlight-on-me\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9146,"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":[6],"tags":[877,873,874,159,875,443,871,872,876],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-news","tag-bill-shapter","tag-bournemouth","tag-carnival","tag-david-wenham","tag-england","tag-nbwg","tag-need-help-write-now","tag-nhwn","tag-south-coast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/needhelpwritenow.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9149,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}