{"id":121,"date":"2016-04-21T18:37:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/?p=121"},"modified":"2016-04-21T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:43:20","slug":"the-ya-book-prize-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/the-ya-book-prize-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The YA  Book Prize Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, will you look at that! Junk is twenty years old this year and the YA Book Prize is marking the occasion with a special award. I&#8217;m so flattered and pleased!<\/p>\n<p>You can read an interview with me and Charlotte Eyre from the Bookseller <a href=\"http:\/\/yabookprize.tumblr.com\/post\/143164654677\/20th-anniversary-of-melvin-burgess-junk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Junk-20-yr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Junk-20-yr-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Junk 20 yr\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Junk-20-yr-196x300.jpg 196w, http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Junk-20-yr-669x1024.jpg 669w, http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Junk-20-yr.jpg 1539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Junk, reissued by Andersen Press with an intro by Malorie Blackman and some extra material, from the letters to and fro-ing between myself and the editors, while it was actually being written. It was quite a struggle, as you can read. Interesting &#8211; I&#8217;d forgotten a lot of what went on at the time myself.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Andersen Press, and to Bookseller who sponsor the YA Book Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, will you look at that! Junk is twenty years old this year and the YA Book Prize is marking the occasion with a special award. I&#8217;m so flattered and pleased! You can read an interview with me and Charlotte Eyre from the Bookseller here. Here&#8217;s Junk, reissued by Andersen Press with an intro by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}