{"id":2444888,"date":"2019-06-02T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local-authors-to-discuss-new-novel-at-explore\/"},"modified":"2019-06-02T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T03:52:00","slug":"local-authors-to-discuss-new-novel-at-explore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/local-authors-to-discuss-new-novel-at-explore\/","title":{"rendered":"Local authors to discuss new novel at Explore"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/briefs-atd-060319-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/briefs-atd-060319-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/briefs-atd-060319-1-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Local writers Linda Lafferty and Andy Stone, who have been married for more than 30 years, have published a book together and will discuss it Tuesday at a local launch event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cLight in the Shadows\u201d was released Saturday by Lake Union Publishing, and the couple will discuss the novel at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Explore Booksellers in Aspen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The book is a combined historical novel\/contemporary thriller based on the life, death and legacy of Caravaggio, the Italian painter. The two story lines \u2014 one set in the late 1500s\/early 1600s, the other set current day \u2014 alternate through the book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cLight in the Shadows\u201d was released May 1 in the United Kingdom and it was ranked No. 1 in several categories in Amazon\u2019s Kindle Store and at one point was No. 4 overall in the Kindle Store, Stone said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Lafferty is the author of numerous books including the Colorado Book Award winners \u201cThe Drowning Guard\u201d and \u201cThe Shepherdess of Siena.\u201d She holds a doctorate in bilingual special education and taught in Spain for three years, as well as in Aspen schools for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Stone worked for 35 years for The Aspen Times as a reporter, editor, award-winning columnist and, eventually, the publisher. He is the author of the novels \u201cSong of the Kingdom\u201d and \u201cAspen Drift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local-authors-to-discuss-new-novel-at-explore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local writers Linda Lafferty and Andy Stone, who have been married for more than 30 years, have published a book together and will discuss it Tuesday at a local launch event. \u201cLight in the Shadows\u201d was released Saturday by Lake Union Publishing, and the couple will discuss the novel at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Explore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 03:20:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}