{"id":1098,"date":"2017-10-11T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2017-10-11T09:39:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:39:12","slug":"the-mermaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"THE MERMAID!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finally have an official release date and some preorder links for my next book, THE MERMAID (although no cover art yet). This book is a little different from what I&#8217;ve previously written &#8211; there is no horror, no violence, no bodies, no blood. It&#8217;s a historical fairy tale about the &#8220;real&#8221; Feejee Mermaid of Barnum&#8217;s American Museum. You can read more about it below, and I&#8217;ll add preorder links as they come up on each site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the author of Lost Boy comes <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">a historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea for love and later finds herself in P.T. Barnum&#8217;s American Museum as the real Fiji mermaid. However, leaving the museum may be harder than leaving the sea ever was.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Once there was a mermaid who longed to know of more than her ocean home and her people. One day a fisherman trapped her in his net but couldn&#8217;t bear to keep her. But his eyes were lonely and caught her more surely than the net, and so she evoked a magic that allowed her to walk upon the shore. The mermaid, Amelia, became his wife, and they lived on a cliff above the ocean for ever so many years, until one day the fisherman rowed out to sea and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>P. T. Barnum was looking for marvelous attractions for his American Museum, and he&#8217;d heard a rumor of a mermaid who lived on a cliff by the sea. He wanted to make his fortune, and an attraction like Amelia was just the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia agreed to play the mermaid for Barnum, and she believes she can leave any time she likes. But Barnum has never given up a money-making scheme in his life, and he&#8217;s determined to hold on to his mermaid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can add THE MERMAID to your Goodreads list <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/36358268-the-mermaid?from_search=true\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mermaid-Christina-Henry-ebook\/dp\/B075WDH86P\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1507731605&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the%20mermaid%20christina%20henry\">Amazon Kindle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mermaid-Christina-Henry\/dp\/0399584048\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1507731605&amp;sr=8-1&amp;dpID=318M8Db%252BrLL&amp;preST=_SX258_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&amp;dpSrc=detail\">Amazon Paperback<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-mermaid-christina-henry\/1127142527?ean=9780399584046\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksamillion.com\/search?id=7077319601758&amp;query=Christina%20Henry%2C%20The%20Mermaid&amp;where=All\">Books-A-Million<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780399584046\">Indiebound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystgalaxy.com\/book\/9780399584046\">Mysterious Galaxy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-mermaid-13\">Kobo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally have an official release date and some preorder links for my next book, THE MERMAID (although no cover art yet). This book is a little different from what I&#8217;ve previously written &#8211; there is no horror, no violence, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/?p=1098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsevents","category-the-mermaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinahenry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}