{"id":87,"date":"2014-12-23T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katerivet.wordpress.com\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2015-07-27T20:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:40:01","slug":"extras","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/?page_id=87","title":{"rendered":"Extras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted a place where I could share some &#8220;Easter eggs&#8221; about my books, so keep reading for some behind-the-scenes information!<\/p>\n<h3><i>Roads To Love<\/i><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The cover photograph was taken by me, and is a diverging road where my aunt lived when I was growing up. Her son now lives in his grandparents&#8217; home on that very road \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>This book was originally written as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), though since I was leaving to visit England and Wales, I completed it in just 15 of the 30 allocated days.<\/li>\n<li>I have a file on my computer of different book ideas that I&#8217;ve come up with but haven&#8217;t managed to get to writing &#8212; each story, save for Liv&#8217;s, came from this file.<\/li>\n<li>Most of my stories tend to come from the infrequent but vivid dreams I have at night, so I scramble to write everything down while I still remember it &#8212; this is exactly where Liv&#8217;s story came from just before starting NaNoWriMo 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The messages from the dating sites in Lissy&#8217;s story?  Those are all messages I&#8217;ve personally received.  I actually have an idea for a nonfiction guide to online dating, and I&#8217;ve been saving the worst of the worst to use as examples in it.  I thought it might be fun to put a couple into the book \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>This one is more of a general Easter egg than just this book, but I like to give my lead characters names you can shorten into nicknames, probably because my real name is pretty difficult to get a nickname from! Only in the past year or two did I figure out what my real name&#8217;s nickname was &#8212; my first initial is B so I expanded it just slightly to Bee \ud83d\ude42 I always hated that I couldn&#8217;t get cute little name things, so I also tend to pick fairly &#8220;normal&#8221;\/common names out of my own experiences!More to come when I think of them! \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted a place where I could share some &#8220;Easter eggs&#8221; about my books, so keep reading for some behind-the-scenes information! Roads To Love The cover photograph was taken by me, and is a diverging road where my aunt lived when I was growing up. Her son now lives in his grandparents&#8217; home on that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6N5R7-1p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}