{"id":1743,"date":"2013-01-11T09:33:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T14:27:41","slug":"happy-birthday-princess-alethea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/happy-birthday-princess-alethea\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Princess Alethea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blog posts are never easy to write. I&#8217;m a grammatical perfectionist and strive to communicate with clarity and poise. This leads to a lot of over-thinking. Today&#8217;s post is doubly troublesome, though, because my subject is an incredibly talented author. Thus, anything I write is going to be kind of lame by comparison. As such, I&#8217;m going to skip the wordiness and get straight to the meat of it.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a title=\"Alethea Kontis\" href=\"http:\/\/aletheakontis.com\">Alethea Kontis<\/a>. You should read her books-<a title=\"All the stuff Alethea has published (and some that is yet to come)\" href=\"http:\/\/aletheakontis.com\/bibliography\/books\/\">all of them<\/a>. Some of them are for little kids, some of them are for adults, and some of them are for young adults, which means that she has something you will enjoy&#8230;unless <a title=\"Yeah, I went there. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Twilight-The-Saga-Book\/dp\/0316038377\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1357913416&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=twilight\">you have terrible taste<\/a>. If you have terrible taste, her books probably aren&#8217;t for you, but you should buy them anyway just to look like you have decent taste. Reputation matters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alethea-144.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[g1743]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1745\" alt=\"Alethea Kontis: Author of Enchanted\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alethea-144.jpg\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alethea-144.jpg 950w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alethea-144-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alethea-144-730x486.jpg 730w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alethea-144-590x393.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, Alethea is a princess. Now, if you&#8217;ve read your George MacDonald, you know that all girls are princesses by virtue of being daughters of the King, but Princess Alethea takes it a step farther by actually dressing the part. (Kids, remember this next time your mom doesn&#8217;t want you to wear your tiara to the grocery store.) This, in addition to her natural beauty and effervescence (Woo! spelled it right on the first try!) , makes her a great subject for a photo. When she was in town signing and promoting <a title=\"Enchanted by Alethea Kontis at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Enchanted-Alethea-Kontis\/dp\/0547645708\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1357913975&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=enchanted\"><em>Enchanted<\/em><\/a> she was kind enough to sit for Wendy and me. I tried to recruit a frog to complete the tableau, but he was uncooperative.<\/p>\n<p>So, to celebrate Princess Alethea&#8217;s birthday, give her a shout on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AletheaKontis\">Twitter<\/a>, or on her <a href=\"http:\/\/aletheakontis.com\/\">website<\/a>, in the comments below, or, better yet, just go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alethea-Kontis\/e\/B001H6KG3M\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1\">buy all her books<\/a>. I&#8217;m pretty sure the princess would appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog posts are never easy to write. I&#8217;m a grammatical perfectionist and strive to communicate with clarity and poise. This leads to a lot of over-thinking. Today&#8217;s post is doubly troublesome, though, because my subject is an incredibly talented author. Thus, anything I write is going to be kind of lame by comparison. 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