{"id":95421,"date":"2026-08-31T00:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95421"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:09:46","slug":"divas-between-the-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/08\/31\/divas-between-the-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Divas Between The Sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barbra Streisand <\/strong>isn\u2019t dying (or transitioning).&nbsp; And she isn\u2019t performing.&nbsp; But she is writing her first children\u2019s book.&nbsp; <strong><em>And By The Way<\/em><\/strong> will be coming out in March.&nbsp; \u201cI love being \u2018<em>Gamma Barbra<\/em>\u2019 to my three wonderful young grandchildren.&nbsp; One of our favorite activities is reading picture books together \u2013 sometimes the same ones over and over again!&nbsp; So, I thought it would be fun to write my own book&#8230;for them&#8230;and hopefully, for other parents.\u201d&nbsp; That\u2019s all well and good, but please, Barbra, make it less than 992 pages!<\/p>\n<p>Divas and books go together.&nbsp; So this leads us to a special event at the upcoming <strong><em>Gay Days Anaheim<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; <strong>Jaclyn Smith <\/strong>will be joining in the festivities!&nbsp; On September 20<sup>th<\/sup>, she\u2019ll be doing a talk about her memoir, <strong><em>I Once Knew a Guy Named Charlie<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Tickets to the event include an autographed copy of the book and benefit <em>Ability First<\/em>, an organization that helps the disabled achieve their best.&nbsp; Grab your tickets at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.GayDaysAnaheim.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>GayDaysAnaheim.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>One of Dolly\u2019s passions was providing books to children.&nbsp; The author of the <strong><em>Heated Rivalry<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;books shares that passion.&nbsp; <strong>Rachel Reid<\/strong> announced a gift of $300K to the Annapolis Valley libraries in Nova Scotia.&nbsp; When five branches faced closure due to stalled municipal funding, Reid stepped in.&nbsp; \u201cI had to do it because I don\u2019t know what the point is of being a successful author in Nova Scotia if you\u2019re not going to use it for good.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbra Streisand isn\u2019t dying (or transitioning).&nbsp; And she isn\u2019t performing.&nbsp; But she is writing her first children\u2019s book.&nbsp; And By The Way will be coming out in March.&nbsp; \u201cI love being \u2018Gamma Barbra\u2019 to my three wonderful young grandchildren.&nbsp; One of our favorite activities is reading picture books together \u2013 sometimes the same ones over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95422,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95421\/revisions\/95422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}