{"id":25937,"date":"2025-09-16T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25937\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:26:08","slug":"evening-of-petals-pining-at-blue-cypress-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25937\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening of Petals &#038; Pining at Blue Cypress Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS (press release) \u2013 Blue Cypress Books hosts romance authors Alexandra Vasti and Jamie Harrow on Saturday, Sept 20, at 7 p.m. to\u00a0celebrate the launch of Vasti\u2019s highly-anticipated new novel,\u00a0\u201cLadies in Hating,\u201d\u00a0and Harrow\u2019s second novel\u00a0\u201cFun at Parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLadies in Hating is the gay gothic rom-com of my dreams, suffused with Vasti\u2019s usual, sincere affection: for her characters, and for her readers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Alix E. Harrow<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved everything about Fun at Parties: the chaotic road trip, the portrayal of complex friendship dynamics in your 20s, the unbearable YEARNING of the friends-to-lovers romance that was so expertly drawn.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 Jessica Joyce<\/p>\n<p>Blue Cypress owners share they have an evening of floral fun planned with treats, yearning, readings, a Q&amp;A with Alex and Jamie, crafts and more. <\/p>\n<p>More information, RSVP &amp; preordering available here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bluecypressbooks.indielite.org\/event\/AlexandraAndJamie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bluecypressbooks.indielite.org\/event\/AlexandraAndJamie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (press release) \u2013 Blue Cypress Books hosts romance authors Alexandra Vasti and Jamie Harrow on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-25937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}