{"id":1325,"date":"2010-09-12T12:56:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T00:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2010-11-21T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:40:48","slug":"the-big-idea-john-scalzis-whatever-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/09\/12\/the-big-idea-john-scalzis-whatever-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Idea: John Scalzi&#8217;s &#8220;Whatever&#8221; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Heir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1329 alignleft\" title=\"Heir\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Heir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Heir.jpg 474w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Heir-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em><span id=\"__end\"><span id=\"__end\"><strong> \ufeff<\/strong>is being launched in <\/span><\/span>the US on 1 October&#8212;and very cool news, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Scalzi\"><strong>John Scalzi<\/strong><\/a> has offered me a <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/category\/big-idea\/\"><strong>Big Idea<\/strong><\/a> slot on his <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\"><strong>Whatever<\/strong><\/a> blog on <strong>21 October<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>There is a &#8220;big idea&#8221; behind <em><strong>Heir<\/strong><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\"><strong>The Wall of Night series<\/strong><\/a>, one that has driven the writing of the book &#8220;from the beginning&#8221; &#8212;as my friend Ruth will bear witness given that I used to talk to her endlessly about it over coffee when we both lived in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dunedinnz.com\/\">Dunedin<\/a><\/strong>&#8211;oh my goodness&#8212;a decade ago now. It took me a little longer to actually get started with the writing, but it is very exciting that the book, and now also the big idea, are going to be getting out there, into the world.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t forget to stay tuned and check out <strong>Whatever<\/strong>, and <strong>the Big Idea<\/strong>, on 21 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heir of Night \ufeffis being launched in the US on 1 October&#8212;and very cool news, John Scalzi has offered me a Big Idea slot on his Whatever blog on 21 October! There is a &#8220;big idea&#8221; behind Heir and The Wall of Night series, one that has driven the writing of the book &#8220;from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-guest-blog-posts","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","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=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}