{"id":1554,"date":"2018-12-23T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2018-12-23T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T17:30:39","slug":"james-pattersons-holiday-bookseller-bonuses-2018-include-eight-texas-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"James Patterson\u2019s Holiday Bookseller Bonuses for 2018 include eight Texas recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 James Patterson has renewed a most welcome holiday publishing tradition \u2014 bonuses for independent bookstore employees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The best-selling author announced Tuesday that 333 workers each will receive $750. The winners, nominated by customers and colleagues among others, are listed on the web site of the American Booksellers Association. Patterson has given more than $1 million to individual book sellers over the past five years and has donated millions to libraries and literacy programs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Tuesday, Patterson said book sellers have used the money for everything from fixing a car to paying a dental bill. He said he was happy to make \u201ca small difference\u201d in the lives of people who had helped so many in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations are in order for:<\/p>\n<p>Shannon Brewer, BookPeople, (Austin)<br \/>\nAnna Brown, Katy Budget Books (Houston)<br \/>\nThu Doan, Brazos Bookstore (Houston)<br \/>\nFernando A. Flores, Malvern Books (Austin)<br \/>\nChelsea Green, MyBookBox (Murphy)<br \/>\nStefani Kelley, The Book Nook (Brenham)<br \/>\nJohn Kwiatkowski, Murder By the Book (Houston)<br \/>\nSusan Post, BookWoman (Austin)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the entire list of bookseller awards, please visit: https:\/\/www.bookweb.org\/james-patterson-holiday-bonus-recipients-2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Patterson has renewed a most welcome holiday publishing tradition \u2014 bonuses for independent bookstore employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}