{"id":659,"date":"2012-05-21T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2012-05-21T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:55:47","slug":"new-amelia-peabody-book-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"New Amelia Peabody book coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I greatly enjoy the Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters (the pen name of Egyptologist Barbara Mertz). Starting in the 1890&#8217;s, these follow the adventures of the intrepid Amelia and her family solving mysteries while digging in Egypt, through the discovery of the tomb of Tutenkhamon (with their help) in 1922.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the author has said she would not be going on beyond that period (due to the aging of the characters). But she would be &#8220;filling in the gaps&#8221;, as evidenced by the most recent book, &#8220;River in the Sky&#8221;, written in 2010, and placed in 1910.<\/p>\n<p>Just discovered the following on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpmbooks.com\/notes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Mertz&#8217; website<\/a>, written in February 2012:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: Times; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica;\">And I have started the next book. Tentative title is <strong>The Painted Queen<\/strong>, though that may change. It takes place during the 1912-13 season (more \u201ckeeping track\u201d of the other books in the series). Give you three guesses as to who she is. I can&#8217;t promise when it will be finished \u2013 the mind works a little slower as time goes on! \u2013 but, I hope to turn in a manuscript this spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Times; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: medium;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2012\/05\/20120521-225046.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2012\/05\/20120521-225046.jpg\" alt=\"20120521-225046.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Bust of Nefertiti in Berlin, &#8220;The Painted Queen&#8221;? (Image: Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I greatly enjoy the Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters (the pen name of Egyptologist Barbara Mertz). Starting in the 1890&#8217;s, these follow the adventures of the intrepid Amelia and her family solving mysteries while digging in Egypt, through the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=659\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3AzSx-aD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}