{"id":995,"date":"2024-08-04T16:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/?p=995"},"modified":"2024-08-04T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T16:38:18","slug":"some-lovely-critical-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"LOVELY CRITICAL PRAISE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve always been cagy about posting small award wins, or the odd good review, etc, but have noticed that plenty of authors use bombastic terms, such as &#8220;<strong>bestseller<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>award-winning<\/strong>&#8221; for the most minor occurrences. But to be fair, they have indeed &#8211; and many are just as small and humble as my own (but we love &#8217;em). But now it&#8217;s time I embrace this having had two &#8220;bestselling&#8221; series (they briefly struck the top 10 in the book charts &#8211; and one series (for a single day) was Nielson&#8217;s top 5 in the country. They&#8217;ve dominated the tables of Waterstones, and had critical praise from major newspapers and film reviews. So screw it, I&#8217;m going to shout for a bit. Apologies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been cagy about posting small award wins, or the odd good review, etc, but have noticed that plenty of authors use bombastic terms, such as &#8220;bestseller&#8221; and &#8220;award-winning&#8221; for the most minor occurrences. But to be fair, they have indeed &#8211; and many are just as small and humble as my own (but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybriggs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}