{"id":11,"date":"2014-11-11T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T06:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2023-05-24T18:09:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:09:58","slug":"the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"The Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one-third first\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-272 \" src=\"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julie-and-Scruffy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julie-and-Scruffy.jpg 1038w, http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julie-and-Scruffy-300x290.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julie-and-Scruffy-768x741.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julie-and-Scruffy-1024x988.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-269 \" src=\"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julie-in-cheltenham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julie-in-cheltenham.jpg 439w, http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julie-in-cheltenham-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"one-third\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-127 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/julie-india.jpg\" alt=\"julie-india\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/julie-india.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/julie-india-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like the shapeshifter character in her first novel, Magic to Memphis, Julie shows up in different places in different guises. At home in Buckinghamshire, wearing slippers as she works, she writes novels, short stories, verses and lyrics, because if she doesn\u2019t, her head fills up with the noise of them.<\/p>\n<p>In the world of serious business, she turns up as an executive coach, mentor and speaker, wearing high heels and a suitably solemn expression. <span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">Julie has three books published on coaching and mentoring, and those have been translated into many languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At weekends, wellingtons are often the footwear of choice, to tramp across muddy fields and lanes, musing and pondering generally about stuff. During winter months, you might bump into her wearing sandals, wandering around sacred sites in India, as part of an ongoing quest towards enlightenment (or peace and quiet\u2014either would be brilliant). An devoted dog fan, her mutt is a small but perfectly formed rescue called Scruffy, who has convinced her that he\u2019s totally untrainable (or did he train her to think that?).<\/p>\n<p>For more writings and chat, speculation and debate, check out <a title=\"Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/blog\/\">the blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the author Like the shapeshifter character in her first novel, Magic to Memphis, Julie shows up in different places in different guises. At home in Buckinghamshire, wearing slippers as she works, she writes novels, short stories, verses and lyrics, because if she doesn\u2019t, her head fills up with the noise of them. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffdogbooks.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}