{"id":27,"date":"2016-05-19T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2024-01-07T09:22:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T09:22:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About\/contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About me:<\/h3>\n<p>You want to know something about me? Really? What can I tell you &#8211; I&#8217;m British, although I&#8217;ve lived and passed through many other parts of the world. Currently I live in the north of Scotland, living on haggis and whisky and raspberries, and enjoying the endless summer days when it never quite gets dark. The endless winter nights &#8211; not so much. I share my view of the Black Isle with my husband.<\/p>\n<h3>About my writing:<\/h3>\n<p>I write traditional Regency romances as <strong>Mary Kingswood<\/strong>. There&#8217;s no sex in these books, although some less savory aspects of Regency societies exist in the background.<\/p>\n<p>I also write epic fantasy with a romantic twist as <strong>Pauline M Ross<\/strong> (WARNING: this means the books contain some sex and profanity). You can find out more about the Brightmoon world <a title=\"About the Brightmoon books\" href=\"http:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was a finalist in Amazon&#8217;s KDP Storyteller UK competition for 2021, which is a somewhat amazing honour. The book is <em>Stranger at the Villa<\/em>, and it was one of five books chosen. The winner (Rachel McLean &#8211; well done, Rachel!) was chosen by the judges (after reading all five books) on October 21st in London.<\/p>\n<h3>About my book reviews:<\/h3>\n<p>I read a lot of Regency romance and a little of other genres too. You can find all the books I&#8217;ve read and my reviews on Goodreads under my Pauline M Ross name <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/3321575-paulinemross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. I also post my Regency reviews here on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>My archived reviews, including mystery and general fiction, plus some random essays, are at <a title=\"Pauline's Fantasy Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/paulinesfantasyreviews.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pauline&#8217;s Fantasy Reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Contact me:<\/h3>\n<p>Want to ask me a question, tell me what you think of the books, or make a suggestion? Or is there something wrong &#8211; in the books, or on the website? Let me know! You can email me at <a href=\"mailto:mary@marykingswood.co.uk\">mary@marykingswood.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Legal stuff:<\/h3>\n<p>If you email me, I&#8217;m liable to email you back (I love emails from readers!). If you sign up for my mailing list, you&#8217;ll get free novellas and occasional emails about new releases and special deals. No spam, I promise, and no one else gets your email address from me. You can unsubscribe at any time. I&#8217;m not a technical wizard, but as far as I know there are no cookies kept on this site, just the usual visitor statistics. The links to Amazon contain affiliate codes, which means if you click one and then buy a yacht or some toothpicks, I make some money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About me: You want to know something about me? Really? What can I tell you &#8211; I&#8217;m British, although I&#8217;ve lived and passed through many other parts of the world. Currently I live in the north of Scotland, living on haggis and whisky and raspberries, and enjoying the endless summer days when it never quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5183,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/5183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}