{"id":9753,"date":"2015-01-04T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T01:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=9753"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T06:53:09","slug":"230000-homes-read-about-me-my-nbwg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/230000-homes-read-about-me-my-nbwg\/","title":{"rendered":"230,000 Homes Read About Me &#038; My #NBWG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Peninsula-Living-Zena-Shapter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9761\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Peninsula-Living-Zena-Shapter.jpg\" alt=\"Peninsula Living Zena Shapter\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Peninsula-Living-Zena-Shapter.jpg 640w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Peninsula-Living-Zena-Shapter-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>What a great way to start the year \u2013 with a feature in January&#8217;s <em>Peninsula Living<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a bit of a tough festive season for me, with some bad family news that will see me returning to England for a short time, as soon as possible. So it&#8217;s particularly warming to see how supportive my local community here on Sydney&#8217;s Northern Beaches is of my writing career, and that of &#8216;my writers&#8217; \u2013 the members of the <a title=\"NBWG \u2013 About\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/nbwg-about\/\"><em>Northern Beaches Writers&#8217; Group<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So many people have been interested in the story of how we came to collectively publish <a title=\"Scribbles in the Dark Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scribbles-Dark-Zena-Shapter-ebook\/dp\/B00PE6KDZW\/ref=asap_B00Q3KBNNO_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418120328&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Scribbles in the Dark<\/em><\/a> and <a title=\"A Dolphin for Naia Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dolphin-Naia-Zena-Shapter-ebook\/dp\/B00PE6KDZM\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418120804&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+dolphin+for+naia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Dolphin for Naia<\/em><\/a> that it&#8217;s spread from the internet into <em>The Manly Daily<\/em> and now into<em> Peninsula Living<\/em>. The readership for these publications is astounding \u2013 145,000 and 87,000 respectively, giving the NBWG and I exposure to over 230,000 homes. Wow!<\/p>\n<p>Publicity for our award-winning books doesn&#8217;t stop there, however, as we&#8217;ll be doing author appearances at schools and libraries into the new year. If you&#8217;d like to arrange an author appearance, to discover more about the books and\/or our writing process, please <a title=\"Messages\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a>. To support us on Facebook, I&#8217;m <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZenaShapter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and the Northern Beaches Writers&#8217; Group&#8217;s page is <a title=\"Facebook NBWG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NorthernBeachesWritersGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can simply buy the books, and support The Kids Cancer Project by clicking on the titles: <a title=\"Scribbles in the Dark Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scribbles-Dark-Zena-Shapter-ebook\/dp\/B00PE6KDZW\/ref=asap_B00Q3KBNNO_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418120328&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Scribbles in the Dark<\/em><\/a> and <a title=\"A Dolphin for Naia Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dolphin-Naia-Zena-Shapter-ebook\/dp\/B00PE6KDZM\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418120804&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+dolphin+for+naia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Dolphin for Naia<\/em><\/a>, or by following the links <a title=\"Zena Teen Fiction\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/teen-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here&#8217;s the <em>Peninsula Living<\/em> feature, for your reading pleasure: <a title=\"In the News\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/in-the-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the News<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great way to start the year \u2013 with a feature in January&#8217;s Peninsula Living! It&#8217;s been a bit of a tough festive season for me, with some bad family news that will see me returning to England for a short time, as soon as possible. So it&#8217;s particularly\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/230000-homes-read-about-me-my-nbwg\/\">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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[5,6],"tags":[940,1049,395,443,455,1047,1004,1050,1048,712],"class_list":["post-9753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookish-inspection","category-personal-news","tag-a-dolphin-for-naia","tag-local-community","tag-manly-daily","tag-nbwg","tag-northern-beaches-writers-group","tag-peninsula-living","tag-scribbles-in-the-dark","tag-support","tag-sydneys-northern-beaches","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753","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=9753"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14274,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753\/revisions\/14274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}