{"id":862,"date":"2022-10-14T10:11:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T10:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=862"},"modified":"2022-10-14T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T10:16:15","slug":"francesca-haigs-new-historical-novel-salt-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2022\/10\/14\/francesca-haigs-new-historical-novel-salt-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Haig’s new historical novel ‘Salt Blood’"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 10, 2022<\/p>\n

Bloomsbury has pre-empted Salt Blood<\/em> by poet Francesca Haig, a historical novel about the infamous 18th-century pirate Mary Read, in a six-figure deal.<\/p>\n

Publishing director Emma Herdman signed UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada and including audio, from Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment in a two-book deal. Haig will be writing as Francesca de Tores. The book is slated for publication in spring 2024 and will be accompanied by a \u201cmajor\u201d marketing and publicity campaign.<\/p>\n

Read more at ‘The Bookseller’<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Rachel<\/p>\n

Rachel Edwards (left) in conversation with Francesca Haig<\/a>\u2014Fullers Bookshop, Hobart, 14th Dec 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 10, 2022 Bloomsbury has pre-empted Salt Blood by poet Francesca Haig, a historical novel about the infamous 18th-century pirate Mary Read, in a six-figure deal. Publishing director Emma Herdman signed … Continue reading “Francesca Haig’s new historical novel ‘Salt Blood’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edwards-rachel","category-haig-francesca"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}