{"id":40090,"date":"2016-06-20T03:34:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T07:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=40090"},"modified":"2016-06-14T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:06:09","slug":"ut-alum-to-launch-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/06_20_2016\/ut-alum-to-launch-new-book","title":{"rendered":"UT alum to launch new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Toledo alumna Jasmine Shea Townsend will launch her new book, <em>The Adventures and Shenanigans of Bastien Falco,<\/em> on Friday, June 24, at 2 p.m. in the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections on the fifth floor of Carlson Library.  <\/p>\n<p>The free, public event will include readings of selections from the book by Townsend.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=40165\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40165\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/book-launch-with-author-photo.jpg\" alt=\"book launch with author photo\" width=\"540\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/book-launch-with-author-photo.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/book-launch-with-author-photo-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>Described by Townsend as a comedic fantasy novel, the book follows the adventure of Prince Bastien and his manservant, Sandy, as they seek revenge for the murder of the prince\u2019s bride-to-be on their wedding day. In the process, the prince and Sandy are kidnapped by a mysterious woman and her gang of bandits.<\/p>\n<p>Townsend received her bachelor of arts degree in creative writing from UT in 2013 and her master of arts degree in literature in 2015 also from the University.  <\/p>\n<p>Previous works by Townsend have received Mill Magazine\u2019s spring 2014 fiction award and a second-place award for a short story in 2015 from the Toledo Writers\u2019 Workshop.  <\/p>\n<p>Refreshments will be served. Copies of the book will be available at the event for $10.  <\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Canaday Center at 419.530.2170.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasmine Shea Townsend will read selections from her new book, &#8220;The Adventures and Shenanigans of Bastien Falco&#8221; at her alma mater Friday, June 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,5,45,1,7,37],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40164,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090\/revisions\/40164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}