[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-sara-rocks-even-without-an-h":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Congratulations, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sara-grant.com/dark-parties/\">Sara Grant\u003C/a>, on the launch of your novel, \u003Cb>\u003Ci>DARK PARTIES\u003C/i>\u003C/b>. Exciting! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sara_grant-82651473e2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more pics under the cut!-->\\r\nSara Grant, Sara O'Connor and I occasionally meet up as posse of American Sarahs. (We even went to a \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/105285.html\">Sarah Party\u003C/a> together!) So it was super exciting to see Sara's first novel come out at last. Sara's been very active in the \u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.jimdo.com/\">Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators\u003C/a>, which have been a huge help to us in learning about and networking in the industry. So SCBWI was out in force, it was great to see everyone, and hear about so many of them who are having books published. Here's Sara on the left (\u003Ca hrf=\"https://twitter.com/#!/AuthorSaraGrant\">@AuthorSaraGrant\u003C/a> on Twitter), with YA book blogger \u003Ca href=\"http://sisterspookybookfangirl.blogspot.com/\">Sister Spooky\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/sisterspooky\">@sisterspooky\u003C/a>). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dark_parties-d742414a4c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMore launch pics! From left: writer, sometimes artist, amazing blogger and unofficial photographer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.candygourlay.com/\">Candy Gourlay\u003C/a>; fab writer \u003Cb>Christina Vinall\u003C/b>; marvellous book person, writer and reviewer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.myfavouritebooks.blogspot.com/\">Liz de Jager\u003C/a>; Foyles organiser, art, fashion and design dude \u003Cb>Neil Jackson\u003C/b>; Writer, illustrator and puppeteer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sueeves.net/\">Sue Eves\u003C/a>; lovely writer and editor \u003Ca href=\"http://hotkeyblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/the-ed-heads/\">Sara O'Connor\u003C/a>, some chick with pointy specs, loads-of-fun Orion publicist \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/ninadouglas\">Nina Douglas\u003C/a>. Find out more about \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sara-grant.com/dark-parties/\">\u003Ci>DARK PARTIES\u003C/i> on Sara's website\u003C/a>!\\r\n\\r\nI've been to quite a few book launches lately and eaten a bit too well. I'll let Twitter do the talking here, after I tweeted a picture of the lovely, sparkly cupcakes.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/twitterfeed-6368fdc8fa.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dark_pastries-a6641d1873.jpg\">","2012-01-11T11:38:00.000Z","sara-rocks-even-without-an-h",[],"sara rocks, even without an h",1776628721256]