{"id":13282,"date":"2012-04-26T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13282"},"modified":"2015-03-19T21:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:55:21","slug":"sf-signal-mind-meld-great-genre-reads-for-teenage-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/sf-signal-mind-meld-great-genre-reads-for-teenage-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Signal Mind Meld: “Great Genre Reads For Teenage Girls”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last stop on the Blog Tour<\/a> is still “Building Fantastic Worlds: ‘It’s a Mystery,'”<\/a> my guest post on Kate Elliott’s<\/strong> I Make Up Worlds<\/strong><\/em> blog. There are some great comments and a joint Helen Lowe\/Kate Elliott book giveaway happening so be sure to head on over and check it out here<\/a>. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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It’s not quite all over yet though, because right now I’m participating in another Mind Meld<\/strong> on SF Signal<\/a>. Titled “Great Genre Reads for Teenage Girls,” <\/strong>the specific topic is: “What genre books would you recommend to young teenage girls that read at an advanced level?”<\/em><\/p>\n

What indeed? Fellow authors Mari Ness<\/strong>, Juliet Marillier<\/a> and Stina Leicht<\/a> join me in addressing the topic and there are some very interesting books on our respective lists.<\/p>\n

My contribution begins as follows:<\/p>\n

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Stina Leicht’s “Of Blood and Honey”<\/p><\/div>\n

“In terms of looking at books I would personally recommend to young teenage girls (i. e. 13-15) that read at an advanced level, I am going to be swayed by the kind of books I liked at a similar age. (I was also one of those advanced readers.) I also intend using similar selection criteria, the primary one being: is it a good story that will entertain while having some \u2018meat\u2019 on it in terms of use of language and the intellectual and emotional \u2018grunt\u2019 of the story being told. (At that age, I never picked up a book because I read the back cover blurb and thought: \u201coh my, this seems worthy.\u201d I always started reading because I thought: \u201cthis sounds like a really interesting story.\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n

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To read the full Mind Meld and all the authors’ contributions, click Here<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last stop on the Blog Tour is still “Building Fantastic Worlds: ‘It’s a Mystery,’” my guest post on Kate Elliott’s I Make Up Worlds blog. There are some great comments and a joint Helen Lowe\/Kate Elliott book giveaway happening so be sure to head on over and check it out here. \ud83d\ude09 It’s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","category-sf-signal-guest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282","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=13282"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28539,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282\/revisions\/28539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}