{"id":291,"date":"2024-02-07T00:08:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T00:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2024-02-07T00:08:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T00:08:53","slug":"the-toy-maker-wins-the-brew-seal-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/the-toy-maker-wins-the-brew-seal-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toy Maker Wins The Brew Seal of Excellence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chrysalis-Brew-Excellence-Award-Seal-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was so excited when I received the news that my first novel, The Toy Maker, had received its first award! The Chrysalis Brew Project had originally done a review of my book in April of 2023. I was so happy with that review and it remains one of my favourite that I have received to date. The reviewer really understood what I was going for with the characterizations and her appreciation of the characters has continued to stand out to me. I always start writing from the idea of a character and work from there so characterization is at the heart of every story I write. If you want to read the review you can check it out on The Chrysalis Brew Project website or click <a href=\"https:\/\/thechrysalisbrewproject.com\/2023\/04\/10\/a-book-review-by-kajori-the-toy-maker-by-melanie-flynn\/\">here<\/a> for a direct link.<\/p>\n<p>This award, the BREW Seal of Excellence, is given out to books receiving a perfect 5-star rating from all of its Brew Project reviews. The Brew describes the award as follows, namely:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The BREW Seal of Excellence is awarded to books that receive unanimous praise, earning a perfect 5-star rating from all its BREW reviews. It represents a pinnacle of literary achievement, recognizing works of exceptional quality and impact within the BREW literary community.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is a highlight moment in my literary career so far and an incredible accolade to have received. I am honoured to be recognized alongside so many other fantastic authors and their works. To check out the announcement page and all of the other honourees click the link <a href=\"https:\/\/thechrysalisbrewproject.com\/brew-seal-of-excellence-recipients\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am hard at work on The Toy Maker&#8217;s sequel and another unnamed project currently. In the meantime I will be making an announcement in the coming weeks about a top secret project that I am very excited about. To give a small tease to tide you over let me just say that many who know me personally or know me through my day job as a lawyer, will know that I am big on accessibility and inclusivity. That is something that drove me to pursue this soon to be announced project. Keep an eye out for it and keep reading!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Melanie<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so excited when I received the news that my first novel, The Toy Maker, had received its first award! The Chrysalis Brew Project had originally done a review of my book in April of 2023. I was so happy with that review and it remains one of my favourite that I have received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19,25,24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-author","category-praise-for-the-toy-maker","category-private-detective-rylee-scott-series","category-rylee-scott-series","category-the-toy-maker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanieflynnbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}