{"id":13009,"date":"2012-04-13T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13009"},"modified":"2012-04-12T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T05:40:09","slug":"the-gathering-of-the-lost-blog-tour-i-drop-in-on-the-shared-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/the-gathering-of-the-lost-blog-tour-i-drop-in-on-the-shared-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Gathering of the Lost&#8221; Blog Tour: I Drop In On &#8220;The Shared Desk&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12626\" style=\"width: 103px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/the-gathering-of-the-lost-has-its-first-us-review\/gatheringofthelostt-mm-c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12626\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12626\" title=\"GatheringoftheLostt mm c\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-93x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-636x1024.jpg 636w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11204\" style=\"width: 108px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/catherine-asaro-on-the-gathering-of-the-lost-the-wall-of-night-book-two\/gatheringoflost-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11204\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11204\" title=\"GatheringofLost (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AUS\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The latest stop on <em><strong>The Gathering of the Lost<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/blog-tour-schedule-for-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\">Blog Tour<\/a> is with <strong>Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences<\/strong> afficionadoes and fellow Voyager US authors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjballantine.com\/\">Pip Ballantine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/teemorris.com\/\">Tee Morris<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshareddesk.com\/2012\/04\/10\/love-of-adventure-the-crossover-between-steampunk-tales-epic-stories\/\">&#8220;The Shared Desk&#8221;<\/a>&#8212;with a guest post on my love of adventure in storytelling and the overlaps I see between epic fantasy and steampunk:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I was delighted when Pip and Tee asked me to stop by here at The Shared Desk:\u00a0 not least because when I read the rambunctious, rollicking opening to their <\/em><strong>Phoenix Rising<\/strong><em>, the first in the <strong>The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences<\/strong> series, I thought, ah\u2014now here are a pair of storytellers who share my own love of an adventurous tale!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/an-interview-with-phoenix-rising-co-authors-pip-ballantine-tee-morris-plus-book-giveaway\/phoenixrising-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8324\" title=\"phoenixrising\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phoenixrising1-92x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phoenixrising1-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phoenixrising1-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phoenixrising1.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a>This of course got me thinking, because although the Wall series is epic fantasy, steampunk is a genre I have loved since first reading Tim Powers\u2019 <\/em><strong>The Anubis Gates<\/strong><em>\u2014and I have been a keen follower of Phil and Kaja Foglio\u2019s <\/em><strong>Girl Genius Online<\/strong><em> for quite some time now\u2026 \u201cAdventure, romance, mad science\u201d\u2014what could be better? Unless, of course, it is \u201cadventure, romance, and \u2018strange magic!\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>To read on, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshareddesk.com\/2012\/04\/10\/love-of-adventure-the-crossover-between-steampunk-tales-epic-stories\/\">here<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest stop on The Gathering of the Lost Blog Tour is with Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences afficionadoes and fellow Voyager US authors Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris at &#8220;The Shared Desk&#8221;&#8212;with a guest post on my love of adventure in storytelling and the overlaps I see between epic fantasy and steampunk: &#8220;I was delighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-booklaunches","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13009"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13021,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009\/revisions\/13021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}