{"id":1020,"date":"2007-01-22T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2007\/01\/22\/my-secret-other-life\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T09:31:00","slug":"my-secret-other-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2007\/01\/22\/my-secret-other-life\/","title":{"rendered":"My Secret Other Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, I haven&#8217;t been blogging much recently, so what have I been up to? Mmm. Well. As all you millions of die-hard Tara Maya fans know, my stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/WomanScapes-EJ-McFall-Editor\/dp\/1932014241\/sr=8-1\/qid=1162573114\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/102-9843899-9120138?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">Drawn to the Brink<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Portrait-of-a-Pretender\/dp\/B000KLPIOM\/sr=1-1\/qid=1169453901\/ref=sr_1_1\/105-0781620-5843660?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">Portrait of a Pretender<\/a> are set in a world where magic can bring paintings to life.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s probably not surprising that I also paint. You can even visit my eBay store, <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/Lau-Studios_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm\">Lau Studios.<\/a> I write under a pen name, but I paint under my real name, Christine Lau. Recently I started a new series of paintings of urban fairies, called Mimsykins. I will start putting them up for auction in February. You can also see some of my paintings in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk\/stuart\/StudentArt\/ast_id\/22704\">Saatchi Gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, I haven&#8217;t been blogging much recently, so what have I been up to? Mmm. Well. As all you millions of die-hard Tara Maya fans know, my stories Drawn to the Brink and Portrait of a Pretender are set in a world where magic can bring paintings to life. So it&#8217;s probably not surprising that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}