{"id":187,"date":"2025-07-12T20:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-07-12T20:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:14:39","slug":"a-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/2025\/07\/12\/a-dream-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"A dream come true"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All my life, I&#8217;ve wanted to be an author. Not just a writer, but someone who publishes a book. Little did I know how much work it takes to write a 93,000 word book (about 350 pages). There&#8217;s so much to learn about writing fiction, publishing, and marketing a book. I haven&#8217;t learned everything, but I&#8217;m much wiser than when I started this venture. And I&#8217;m delighted to introduce you to Delia Truitt, Clarence Parker, and all their friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BookBrushImage3D-TilltedPaperback-skpg-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BookBrushImage3D-TilltedPaperback-skpg-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BookBrushImage3D-TilltedPaperback-skpg-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BookBrushImage3D-TilltedPaperback-skpg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BookBrushImage3D-TilltedPaperback-skpg-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BookBrushImage3D-TilltedPaperback-skpg.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This beauty releases on July 15, 2025 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the first of three books in The Truitts of Texas series, set in 1895. The second book, Seeds of Hope, releases in July 2026, and the third book, When Hope Takes Root, releases in July of 2027. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my life, I&#8217;ve wanted to be an author. Not just a writer, but someone who publishes a book. Little did I know how much work it takes to write a 93,000 word book (about 350 pages). There&#8217;s so much to learn about writing fiction, publishing, and marketing a book. I haven&#8217;t learned everything, but &#8230; <a title=\"A dream come true\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/2025\/07\/12\/a-dream-come-true\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A dream come true\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}