{"id":57,"date":"2025-10-28T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:48:57","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/index.php\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"57\" class=\"elementor elementor-57\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-704afee e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"704afee\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10b3776 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"10b3776\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WebsiteAuthorPhoto.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-15\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WebsiteAuthorPhoto.jpg 272w, https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WebsiteAuthorPhoto-80x300.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4dfd339 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4dfd339\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Katheryn is the author and illustrator of Daphne and the Mystery of the Half-Buried Egg, a story inspired by the very same mysterious event in her childhood. Katheryn and her family woke up one morning to find a half-buried egg in their front lawn, and eventually went on to discover where it came from (after a lot of confusion and speculation!<\/p><p>From the author:<br \/><em>\u201cThis was such an intriguing mystery at the time, even for my parents, who hadn\u2019t ever seen anything like this before. This curious childhood memory popped into my head again a while later when I became a mum, and I realised that this was the perfect inspiration for my first book for children &#8211; it\u2019s educational, mysterious, and I doubt many parents would even guess the twist unless it had happened to them\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\">Katheryn lives in Nottingham with her husband and two daughters. She has been writing fiction since the age of fourteen, and is especially inspired by the curious nature of children.<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Katheryn loves: Winter, cinnamon buns, dinosaurs, cosy novelty socks, Christmas and being extra silly with her daughters.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katheryn is the author and illustrator of Daphne and the Mystery of the Half-Buried Egg, a story inspired by the very same mysterious event in her childhood. Katheryn and her family woke up one morning to find a half-buried egg in their front lawn, and eventually went on to discover where it came from (after a lot of confusion and speculation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katherynmarshall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}