{"id":1406,"date":"2026-06-12T03:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:50:17","slug":"new-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"New book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1407\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1407\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1407\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-image-1407\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-12-at-1.38.47-pm-277x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-12-at-1.38.47-pm-277x300.png 277w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-12-at-1.38.47-pm.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Cathedral \u2013 Gums at twilight by Brian Purcell (a hint at the heartwood of the book)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted that my new poetry collection will be published in Feb 2027 by <a href=\"https:\/\/liquidamberpress.com.au\">Liquid Amber Press<\/a>. \u00a0Liquid Amber press is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting poetry publishers in Australia with an excellent design and editorial team and a terrific list of poets. I&#8217;m so pleased to be working with them and joining this high-calibre group. More details soon, but for now, if you&#8217;d like to join my early-readers program or put your name down for a heavily discounted autographed book in the first two weeks of publication (no obligations in either instance &#8211; just an expression of interest at this stage), please <a href=\"mailto: maggieball@compulsivereader.com\">drop me a line<\/a> and I&#8217;ll put you on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted that my new poetry collection will be published in Feb 2027 by Liquid Amber Press. \u00a0Liquid Amber press is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting poetry publishers in Australia with an excellent design and editorial team and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1406\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,12,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}