{"id":2551,"date":"2020-01-26T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2020-01-26T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T10:45:15","slug":"texas-talks-scott-semegran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=2551","title":{"rendered":"Texas Talks with Scott Semegran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writers talking to writers about writing. That is what <a href=\"https:\/\/austinlitilimits.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin Liti Limits<\/a> is all about. We are shining the spotlight on writers living in or visiting Austin, Texas, filming readings and interviews with bestsellers, award-winners, up-and-comers, and indies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Austin Liti Limits is hosted by award-winning writers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/austinlitilimits.com\/authors\/4-larry-brill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Brill<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/austinlitilimits.com\/authors\/3-scott-semegran.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Semegran<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Filmed on location in Austin, Texas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>=====<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"media_embed\" height=\"360px\" width=\"640px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360px\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/326448709?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p height=\"360px\" width=\"640px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/326448709\">Scott Semegran Interview<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user31805958\">Larry Brill<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottsemegran.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">Scott Semegran<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000\"> is an award-winning writer of humorous fiction with a dose of heart.&nbsp;<em>BlueInk Review<\/em>&nbsp;described him best as \u201ca gifted writer, with a wry sense of humor.\u201d His latest book is a comic sendup of state government\u2014an entertaining slice-of-life story that\u2019s humorous yet uplifting at the same time\u2014titled&nbsp;<em>To Squeeze a Prairie Dog: An American Novel<\/em>, which was the 2019 Readers&#8217; Favorite International Book Award Winner: Silver Medal for Fiction &#8211; Humor\/Comedy and the Texas Author Project&#8217;s 2019 Adult Fiction Winner. His previous novel,&nbsp;<em>Sammie &amp; Budgie<\/em>, was the first place winner for Fiction in the 2018 Texas Authors Book Awards. His book&nbsp;<em>BOYS<\/em>&nbsp;was the 2018 IndieReader Discovery Awards winner for Short Stories. His other books include&nbsp;<em>The Meteoric Rise of Simon Burchwood<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Spectacular Simon Burchwood<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Modicum<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Mr. Grieves<\/em>. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, four kids, two cats, and a dog. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in English.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Larry Brill interviews author Scott Semegran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[274,53,9,8,297,186],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-authorinterviews","tag-interview","tag-lonestarliterarylife","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-scottsemegran","tag-texastalks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","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=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}