{"id":3522,"date":"2020-02-07T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2020-02-07T17:41:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T17:41:47","slug":"national-bestselling-author-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/national-bestselling-author-coming-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"National Bestselling author coming to town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Novel Blend<\/em>\nwill be hosting a book signing for Kingsville\u2019s very own author, Hollie Overton,\non Saturday, Feb. 8, at 311 E Kleberg Ave. This event will take place from 1 to\n2:30p.m. followed by a reception at <em>Bray\u2019s Smokehouse<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overton is the author of\nthree standalone novels, <em>The Runaway, The Walls and Baby Doll<\/em>, which\nbecame a national bestseller. All these novels are available for purchase at\nthe bookstore, as well as being signed by the author. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The inspiration behind characters from the\nnovels have came from Hollie\u2019s life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an identical twin,\nand the main characters in <em>Baby Doll<\/em> were identical twins, and their\nrelationship formed the whole book,\u201d Overton disclosed. \u201cI was very close with\nmy mother, and our mother\/daughter relationship helped shape the one in <em>The\nRunaway<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overton grew up in\nKingsville, and this small town has had a big influence in her storytelling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKingsville gave me the\nvalues and security and a sense that if anything bad happened, I\u2019d be okay,\u201d\nthe author stated. \u201cAnd the older I get, the more I appreciate that. It\n[Kingsville] shaped me not only who I am as a writer, but as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community is\nencouraged to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe community should\nattend this event in order to celebrate the success of a Kingsville native,\u201d <em>The\nNovel Blend<\/em> owner Jill DiFrancesca said. \u201cIt is also a way of supporting\nliteracy in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some students are excited\nto attend the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to\nthis experience, because having a place where literature can be appreciated,\nespecially in a small town, is important,\u201d student Leslie Cariaga said. \u201cHaving\nan opportunity to meet the author is really amazing, especially since she\u2019s\nfrom here.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Novel Blend will be hosting a book signing for Kingsville\u2019s very own author, Hollie Overton, on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 311 E Kleberg Ave.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[198],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":198,"user_id":51,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sarah-reyna","display_name":"Sarah Reyna","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/9f57ae03fa0867374cd70525f66bf042.jpg?ver=1778634895","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}