{"id":277,"date":"2011-10-07T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2011-10-07T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:23:57","slug":"perfect-halloween-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/perfect-halloween-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Halloween Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What better time to buy a humorous fantasy about witches?<\/p>\n<p>Gertie Gets it Right (eventually) available from Amazon worldwide both in paperback and on Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>Gertie Grimthorpe comes from a long line of witches. Unfortunately, she hasn&#8217;t really got the hang of it. Being blonde haired, blue eyed and free of warts isn&#8217;t much of an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Try as she might, Gertie&#8217;s spells fall flat. She manages to give her bat-headed umbrella the ability to talk, but then wishes she hadn\u2019t when all he does is complain and insult people. Even finding an owl to be her Familiar doesn&#8217;t help. Then again, he is extremely shortsighted\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gertie is sent to The Academy to improve her spell casting skills. She soon has a best friend in the form of Bertha Bobbit, a big girl, with a matching appetite.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Add to that a Moat Monster with a flatulence problem, the weirdest array of witch&#8217;s Familiars possible, and a warlock determined to ruin Gertie&#8217;s chances of success, and the story unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not to mention the demon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better time to buy a humorous fantasy about witches? Gertie Gets it Right (eventually) available from Amazon worldwide both in paperback and on Kindle. Gertie Grimthorpe comes from a long line of witches. Unfortunately, she hasn&#8217;t really got the hang of it. Being blonde haired, blue eyed and free of warts isn&#8217;t much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,10],"tags":[32,38,39,61,64],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-promotion","category-childrens-books","category-fantasy","category-humour","tag-books","tag-children","tag-childrens-book","tag-halloween","tag-humour"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}