{"id":5388,"date":"2018-05-14T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:48:56","slug":"pr-willa-of-the-wood-by-robert-beatty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/industry-news\/press-release\/pr-willa-of-the-wood-by-robert-beatty\/","title":{"rendered":"PR: Willa of the Wood, by Robert Beatty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Willa-of-the-Wood-by-Robert-Beatty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5390\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Willa-of-the-Wood-by-Robert-Beatty-166x250.jpg\" alt=\"Willa of the Wood, by Robert Beatty press release\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Willa-of-the-Wood-by-Robert-Beatty-166x250.jpg 166w, https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Willa-of-the-Wood-by-Robert-Beatty.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t miss the highly anticipated first book in the new series set in the world of Serafina from #1 <i>New York Times <\/i>bestselling author Robert Beatty: <strong>WILLA OF THE WOOD <\/strong> (On Sale <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1496005455\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 10, 2018<\/span><\/span>), a riveting mystery about a young nightspirit torn between the day world and her forest clan. Willa\u2019s bravery and compassion make her impossible not to root for, and her nature-based abilities will enthrall readers as Willa moves between her two worlds. <u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><strong>About WILLA OF THE WOOD<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><em>Move without a sound. Steal without a trace.\u00a0<\/em>Willa, a young nightspirit of the Great Smoky Mountains, is her clan\u2019s best thief. She creeps into the homes of day-folk in the cover of darkness and takes what they won\u2019t miss. It\u2019s dangerous work&#8211;the day-folk kill whatever they do not understand. But when Willa\u2019s curiosity leaves her hurt and at the merge of a day-folk man, everything she thought she knew about her people&#8211;and their greatest enemy&#8211;is forever changed.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>About the Serafina Series<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><em>Serafina and the Black Cloak<\/em> was a #1 <em>New York Times<\/em> best seller, has been on the list for more than 59 weeks, and won the prestigious 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize. The second book in the series, <em>Serafina and the Twisted Staff<\/em>, became an instant #1 <em>New York Times<\/em> best seller, and earned a &#8220;Starred Review&#8221; from Kirkus Reviews. The third book in the Serafina series comes out in July 2017. <em>Serafina and the Splintered Heart<\/em> was an instant <em>New York Times <\/em>bestseller.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>About Robert Beatty<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Beatty lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and three daughters, who help create and refine his stories. He writes full-time now, but in his past lives, Robert was one of the early pioneers of cloud computing, the founder\/CEO of Plex Systems, the co-founder of Beatty Robotics, and the chairman\/CTO of Narrative Magazine. In 2007, he was named an Entrepreneur of the Year. Visit him online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robert-beatty.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.robert-beatty.com\">www.robert-beatty.com<\/a> and on Twitter @BeattyAuthor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss the highly anticipated first book in the new series set in the world of Serafina from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Beatty: WILLA OF THE WOOD (On Sale July 10, 2018), a riveting mystery about a young nightspirit torn between the day world and her forest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1059],"tags":[290,1309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5391,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/5391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}