{"id":8672,"date":"2018-09-10T09:27:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2018-09-13T12:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:39:28","slug":"splond-chandra-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8672","title":{"rendered":"SPLOND, CHANDRA SPARKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; editor; blogger. Education; University of Alabama, B.A., \u00a0Samford University, M.A., 2017. Director of Content Marketing, Samford University.\u00a0 Founder and owner of West End Publishing. Has worked as editor for several publishers including Kensington Publishing, Random House, Moody, Hyperion, and Kimani, and for a number of journals and publications. Creator of a popular blog, bookofsplond. \u00a0Selected to represent Alabama at the National\u00a0 Book Festival, 2017. Her <em>Spin It Like that <\/em>received the Popular Paperback for Young Adults award from YALSA, which also named <em>The Pledge<\/em> a Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. She received the Legends and Leaders Award from Black Pearl Magazine in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chandra Sparks Splond website; amazon.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black Girl Dreaming. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Greatest Gift of All. Createspace, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s Got Game! Createspace, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Make It Work. Createspace, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Pledge. Kimani, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Promise. Kimani, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Shine. Createspace, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Spin It Like That. Kimani, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve Gotta Have Faith. Createspace, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer; editor; blogger. Education; University of Alabama, B.A., \u00a0Samford University, M.A., 2017. Director of Content Marketing, Samford University.\u00a0 Founder and owner of West End Publishing. Has worked as editor for several publishers including Kensington Publishing, Random House, Moody, Hyperion, and Kimani, and for a number of journals and publications. Creator of a popular blog, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}