{"id":11404,"date":"2020-02-28T20:16:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11404"},"modified":"2020-03-13T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T18:09:51","slug":"los-fresnos-woman-writes-publishes-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11404","title":{"rendered":"Los Fresnos woman writes, publishes book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Los-Fresnos-author-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11397\" width=\"580\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Los-Fresnos-author-pic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Los-Fresnos-author-pic-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Los-Fresnos-author-pic-405x491.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>Left: Amanda Huebner poses during a recent visit in Harlingen to promote her book. <\/strong><\/em>Photo: Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By TONY VINDELL \/ LFN <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Los Fresnos woman has written a novel about a servant working for a royal family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel, written by Amanda Huebner, is titled \u201cLocket of Lies.\u201d It centers around an orphaned woman named Elaine, who struggles with her identity during a course of her life as she discovers her true roots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a book reviewer, Elaine discovers she possesses an intriguing past and is offered the opportunity to free herself from the servant life but it comes with a cost she did not anticipate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWill she break free or will she be tempted to continue on the same path due to temptation of blind love and safety,\u201d the reviewer asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huebner, whose husband David works for the U.S. Border Patrol in Hillsboro, Virginia, said it took her time to research and write the novel while taking care of their children, ages 1 1\/2 and 5 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She graduated from Harlingen High School South  in 2007 and from Texas A&amp;M University in College Station in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After college, Huebner worked in Harlingen as an English teacher, department head and dean of instruction as she was pursuing a master\u2019s in human resources and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huebner said writing was a whole new experience for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut I am really excited to write about the kind of things I love reading,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her book, published by Kindle Books, has already sold more than 500 copies and is available on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huebner is the daughter of Gene and Chrissy Daniels. Gene Daniels is the director of Los Fresnos Emergency Medical Services and the city\u2019s municipal court judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By TONY VINDELL \/ LFN A Los Fresnos woman has written a novel about a servant working for a royal family. The novel, written by Amanda Huebner, is titled \u201cLocket of Lies.\u201d It centers around an orphaned woman named Elaine, who struggles with her identity during a course of her life as she discovers her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}