{"id":307,"date":"2013-02-05T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T09:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=307"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:53:36","slug":"school-of-english-alumni-has-first-time-self-publishing-success-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/02\/05\/school-of-english-alumni-has-first-time-self-publishing-success-2\/","title":{"rendered":"School of English alumni has first time self-publishing success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susanna Holloway (who graduated with a degree in English and American Literature in 2008) is celebrating the success of her first novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Famous-Haunts-ebook\/dp\/B00B13A8U2\/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1358701587&amp;sr=8-1-spell\">Famous Haunts<\/a>. Susanna hopes the novel, which was self-published and is available to download on Amazon, will be the first of many. Susanna wrote to us to tell us about the experience of self-publication:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found the process quite daunting to begin with, because it&#8217;s something I knew very littleabout, but as soon as I started looking into it online I found a whole community of indie authors who are really supportive of oneanother and very happy to give advice tonewbies To any aspiring authors, I&#8217;d say self-publication is really worth looking into, and the feedback is almostinstantaneous &#8211; I had reviews posted just a fewdays after uploading, and they&#8217;ve all been really encouraging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We wish Susanna every success with her research trip to Egypt and eagerly await news of her next book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susanna Holloway (who graduated with a degree in English and American Literature in 2008) is celebrating the success of her first novel Famous Haunts. Susanna &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/02\/05\/school-of-english-alumni-has-first-time-self-publishing-success-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,87526,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}