{"id":11487,"date":"2026-08-13T20:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=11487"},"modified":"2026-08-13T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:38:28","slug":"marilyn-blair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=11487","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:26% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Headshot-Update.jpeg);background-position:52% 17%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"481\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Headshot-Update.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11488 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Headshot-Update.jpeg 481w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Headshot-Update-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Headshot-Update-116x150.jpeg 116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Contact:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:kidspitpub@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">kidspitpub@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or via&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theeastportseries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.TheEastportSeries.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIO:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After ten years in the business world and twenty as an educator and reading specialist, Marilyn K Blair traded technical writing and the classroom for the world of fiction. She is the author of&nbsp;<em>The Eastport Series<\/em>, a collection of novels set in the coastal town of Eastport, Maine. Marilyn is the recipient of the 2024 WHAC Pacesetter Award and a finalist for the 2026 ACFW Carol Award in Contemporary Fiction. She is currently working on a series for middle grades entitled&nbsp;<em>Moose Island Mysteries.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lifelong Pennsylvanian, Marilyn is a wife, mother, devoted woman of faith, enthusiastic Philadelphia sports fan, and admirer of all things Maine\u2014especially Eastport. She makes her home amid the beautiful farmland of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact:&nbsp;kidspitpub@gmail.com&nbsp; or via&nbsp;www.TheEastportSeries.com BIO: After ten years in the business world and twenty as an educator and reading specialist, Marilyn K Blair traded technical writing and the classroom for the world of fiction. She is the author of&nbsp;The Eastport Series, a collection of novels set in the coastal town of Eastport, Maine. Marilyn is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11493,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11487\/revisions\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}