{"id":8294,"date":"2009-07-27T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2009-07-27T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T13:00:58","slug":"guest-blogger-alaya-dawn-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8294","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogger: Alaya Dawn Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/abw.jpg\" width=\"87\" height=\"100\" alt=\"guest-blogger-alaya-dawn-johnson\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alayadawnjohnson.com\/book%20jacket%20photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/>Through the end of this month into August we\u2019re going to have another guest blogger: author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alayadawnjohnson.com\/\">Alaya Dawn Johnson<\/a>. You may remember Alaya from her <a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/2008\/02\/17\/the-personal-history-of-the-author-is-tangential-at-best\/\">guest post a couple of years ago during Black History Month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alaya\u2019s first book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Racing-Dark-Alaya-Dawn-Johnson\/dp\/1932841288\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-3057442-8275100?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1181429955&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>Racing the Dark<\/em><\/a>, is available now in hardback and will be out soon in paperback. She also wrote a really cute Twisted Journeys book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Goblin-King-Alaya-Dawn-Johnson\/dp\/0822592533\/?tag=thedivapage\"><em>The Goblin King<\/em><\/a> and her next book, a vampire suffragette novel called <em>Moonshine<\/em>, is coming out later this year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her books, she also writes some great short stories. You can find a complete bibliography on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alayadawnjohnson.com\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alaya is an amazing writer but a very infrequent blogger. But as we always end up talking about race and gender foolishness in the science fiction and fantasy genre, I figured she would have no trouble finding things to post here for the next month and change.<\/p>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/abw.jpg\" width=\"87\" height=\"100\" alt=\"guest-blogger-alaya-dawn-johnson\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThrough the end of this month into August we\u2019re going to have another guest blogger: author Alaya Dawn Johnson. You may remember Alaya from her guest post a couple of years ago during Black History Month.<br \/>\nAlaya\u2019s first book, Racing the Dark, is available now in hardback and will be out soon in paperback. She also [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" style=\"3px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}