{"id":10,"date":"2016-07-17T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T10:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:50:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2018Full of love, enlightenment, practicality and poetry.\u2019 Toby Litt, author of <em>Patience<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/AYj8k\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Wild-seas-wilder-cities-outside-cover-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Wild-seas-wilder-cities-outside-cover-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Wild-seas-wilder-cities-outside-cover-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Wild-seas-wilder-cities-outside-cover-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Wild-seas-wilder-cities-outside-cover.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-editor and contributor for <em>Wild Seas, Wilder Cities<\/em>, published October 2024. Available <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/AYj8k\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/AYj8k\" target=\"_blank\">direct from Pens of the Earth<\/a> or via their <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pensoftheearth.co.uk\/the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">curated list of retailers<\/a>. Sold to raise money for the Solent Seagrass Restoration Project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221;Multilayered&#8230; will mean different things to different readers. Reading [ <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=524\">Sometimes When I Sleep<\/a><\/em> ] is like taking a personal journey.&#8217; Rosalind, Goodreads reviewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:71% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/gC6tz\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" src=\"http:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Salsbury-Full-Cover-1-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-616 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Salsbury-Full-Cover-1-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Salsbury-Full-Cover-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Salsbury-Full-Cover-1-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Salsbury-Full-Cover-1-1536x1058.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Salsbury-Full-Cover-1-2048x1411.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>My debut novel is now available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=524\">direct from me<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forthcoming:<\/strong> <br>My second novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=123\">The Worry Bottles<\/a> has already been shortlisted for the Impress Prize for New Writers. Find out more in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=408\">interview<\/a> which first appeared in <em>book&amp;brew<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View my published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=118\">Short stories<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/?page_id=377\">articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Full of love, enlightenment, practicality and poetry.\u2019 Toby Litt, author of <em>Patience<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/\">&sim;&nbsp;Continue Reading&nbsp;&sim;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensalsbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}