{"id":17058,"date":"2020-07-04T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/tamaishi-review-elizabeth-weigandt-author-of-queen-bee\/"},"modified":"2020-10-29T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T22:42:09","slug":"tamaishi-review-elizabeth-weigandt-author-of-queen-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/2020\/07\/tamaishi-review-elizabeth-weigandt-author-of-queen-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamaishi Review, Elizabeth Weigandt, Author of Queen Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethweigandt.com\/2020\/07\/02\/taimashi-by-ian-tadashi-moore\/\">gifted a review by another indie author, Elizabeth Weigandt.<\/a> She wrote Queen Bee, a book I thoroughly enjoyed. We were acquainted at a local SCBWI event, and I was immediately taken with the subject matter \u2014 the title <em>Watership Down <\/em>was invoked more than once. And to me, Queen Bee is a spiritual sister to that, albeit without much of the backstory and history. While all that certainly has it&#8217;s merits \u2014 and Ms. Weigandt did a fair amount of research into bees to approach this book \u2014 one of the many things Queen Bee does wonderfully is jump right into the action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/review-queen-bee-elizabeth-weigandt\/\">My review of Queen Bee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">And now Queen Bee has been <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WynterEm\/status\/1275423994372644867\">shortlisted to be an animated feature,<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> while Elizabeth is quietly working on a sequel. Can&#8217;t <\/span>wait<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was gifted a review by another indie author, Elizabeth Weigandt. She wrote Queen Bee, a book I thoroughly enjoyed. We were acquainted at a local SCBWI event, and I was immediately taken with the subject matter \u2014 the title Watership Down was invoked more than once. And to me, Queen Bee is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/2020\/07\/tamaishi-review-elizabeth-weigandt-author-of-queen-bee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tamaishi Review, Elizabeth Weigandt, Author of Queen Bee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUyBu-4r8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}