{"id":1795,"date":"2019-03-24T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2019-03-24T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T10:45:05","slug":"lone-star-book-blog-tours-announces-2018-bloggers-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Book Blog Tours announces 2018 Bloggers&#8217; Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The Lone Star Book Blog Tours (LSBBT) Blogger Team has announced its 2018 winners, runners-up, honorable mentions, and short-listed titles in their second annual Bloggers&#8217; Choice Awards.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">To be eligible for a 2018&nbsp;LSBBT Bloggers&#8217; Choice Award, a book must have been featured on an interactive book blog tour in 2018.&nbsp; Over sixty books were considered for the twelve categories included in the 2018 awards. The&nbsp;LSBBT Blogger Team wrote nearly three hundred&nbsp;book reviews of the 2018&nbsp;titles, and the winners were determined by a combination of the&nbsp;reviewers&#8217; average book ratings and team member votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#3300ff\">CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Texas Book:&nbsp;<em>To Catch a Texas Star&nbsp;<\/em>by Linda Broday<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Most Engaged Author: Linda Broday<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Non-Fiction:&nbsp;<em>Fierce, Funny, and Female&nbsp;<\/em>by Marti MacGibbon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Literary Fiction:&nbsp;<em>The Widow&#8217;s Watcher&nbsp;<\/em>by Eliza Maxwell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Mystery \/ Suspense \/ Thriller:&nbsp;<em>Killing in C Sharp&nbsp;<\/em>by Alexia Gordon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Spiritual \/ Inspirational:&nbsp;<em>The Edge of Over There<\/em>&nbsp;by Shawn Smucker<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Romance: (TIE)&nbsp;<em>Mistletoe Miracles&nbsp;<\/em>by Jodi Thomas and&nbsp;<em>A Borrowed Dream&nbsp;<\/em>by Amanda Cabot<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Western: <em>The Fleecing of Fort Griffin&nbsp;<\/em>by Preston Lewis<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Historical Fiction:&nbsp;<em>The Way of Beauty&nbsp;<\/em>by Camille Di Maio<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Fantasy \/ Paranormal \/ Alt History:&nbsp;<em>Killing in C Sharp&nbsp;<\/em>by Alexia Gordon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Most Creative Concept \/ Best Hook:&nbsp;<em>Old Buildings in North Texas&nbsp;<\/em>by Jen Waldo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Best Series: The Gethsemane Brown Mystery Series by Alexia Gordon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/content\/2018-bloggers-choice-awards\">Click to view book covers of all the winners, runners-up, honorable mentions, as well as the short-listed titles.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif\">Winners, runners-up,&nbsp;honorable mentions, and short-listed titles have been announced in twelve categories<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,41,9,137],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bca","tag-lonestarbookblogtours","tag-lonestarliterarylife","tag-lonestarliterarycomawards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","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=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}