{"id":1607,"date":"2020-07-15T13:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2020-07-15T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:52:30","slug":"its-a-book-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/its-a-book-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Book Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Let&#8217;s have birthday cake. \ud83d\ude42<br><br>It&#8217;s not&nbsp;<strong>my&nbsp;<\/strong>birthday (although you&#8217;re welcome to send me presents in October). It&#8217;s a book birthday!<br><br>Specifically&nbsp;<em><strong>Blackbelt Chloe and the Birthday Cake Catastrophe.<\/strong><\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/49MVZp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/author.email\/email\/frontend\/assets\/files\/customer\/qg130sw79q003\/1594742169-chloe_cover_v0_small-ne9ddz.jpg\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">This book was so much fun to write. Just ask the people who kept yelling at me from the living room, &#8220;What are you giggling about in there?&#8221;<br><br>I was just sitting in my office chortling away as I typed.<br><br>You may be sensing a theme in my stories: I love mysteries, martial arts, and monsters. If you do, too, you&#8217;ll love this one.<br><br><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>The birthday party will be ruined!<\/strong><br><br>Chloe had no idea she might have to put her new black belt in taekwondo to use at her friend\u2019s thirteenth birthday party&#8230;<br><br>But somebody \u2014 or something \u2014 is a low-down, dirty, thieving cake-stealer!<br><br>Can Chloe and her friends brave a winter storm and dark, scary woods to collar the culprit before the cake disappears forever?<br><\/span><br><em><strong>Blackbelt Chloe<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;is the fifth in my&nbsp;<strong>Adventure Kids<\/strong>&nbsp;series, stories aimed at readers 9-12 years old and jam-packed with jokes, weird critters, action, and adventure. My childhood love of scifi and fantasy adventure stories like&nbsp;<em>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lord of the Rings,<\/em>&nbsp;the Hardy Boys, and comics inspired these books.<br><br>If you love reading to your little ones as much as I did when my step-daughter was little, they&#8217;re great for that, too.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/49MVZp\">Available in Trade Paperback and Ebook! Just click here!<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ftravisheermann.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F07%2F15%2Fits-a-book-birthday%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s have birthday cake. \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s not&nbsp;my&nbsp;birthday (although you&#8217;re welcome to send me presents in October). It&#8217;s a book birthday! Specifically&nbsp;Blackbelt Chloe and the Birthday Cake Catastrophe. This book was so much fun to write. Just ask the people who kept yelling at me from the living room, &#8220;What are you giggling about in there?&#8221; I was just sitting in my office chortling away as I typed. You may be sensing a theme in my stories: I love mysteries, martial arts, and monsters. If you do, too, you&#8217;ll love this one. The birthday party will be ruined! Chloe had no<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/its-a-book-birthday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s a Book Birthday!<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:35:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}