Following on from the post immediately below, my guest author post titled Place As Person: What Does It Mean When Telling Story? is now ‘live’ on Mary Victoria’s blog and begins:

“I first became consciously aware of the interface between place and character as an undergraduate, when writing an essay on the city in literature. As soon as I began researching the topic, I quickly realized that whether Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria or Italo Calvino’s invisible city, these places were so vital to the story being told that they were more than simply setting or backdrop—they were “characters” in their own right.

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To read the rest, click here.

And enjoy!  As always, please feel free to leave a comment on Mary’s blog—I will be checking in from time to time throughout the day to reply.

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And Don’t Forget the Giveaway!

Remember that there’s two copies (signed of course) of the new UK mass market edition of The Heir of Night (yellow cover!) for me to give away—if you’d like one, leave a comment on yesterday’s blog post, here, or on my guest post on the Orbit website—“The Evolution of Character: Malian of Night and the Heroic Tradition”—here, before 12 midnight on Sunday 15 (NZ time.)