{"id":17461,"date":"2012-12-03T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=17461"},"modified":"2012-12-03T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T22:17:49","slug":"an-evening-with-walter-jon-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/an-evening-with-walter-jon-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Walter Jon Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17463\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/an-evening-with-walter-jon-williams\/wjw-2nov2012-004a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17463\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17463\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17463\" title=\"WJW, 2Nov2012 004a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WJW-2Nov2012-004a-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WJW-2Nov2012-004a-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WJW-2Nov2012-004a-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WJW-2Nov2012-004a-1024x629.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Andrew, Walter, Cathy, Joff, Beaulah, &amp; Liz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, I and fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specficnz.org\/\">SpecFicNZ<\/a> members enjoyed the opportunity to spend an evening with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walterjonwilliams.net\/\">Walter Jon Williams<\/a> and his wife Cathy, who are currently holidaying in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always nice to catch up with other writers, especially one as long established as Walter&#8212;as well as (fan gal moment!) meeting the author of such longstanding favorites as <em>Hardwired, Crown Jewels<\/em> and <em>Implied Spaces<\/em>. And fascinating as well to hear about <a href=\"http:\/\/taostoolbox.com\/\">Taos Toolbox<\/a>, the masterclass for SF writers he runs jointly with Nancy Kress.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings like this do rather underline Elizabeth Knox&#8217;s point in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2012\/11\/fun-with-friends-helen-lowe-talks-with-fellow-authors-from-australia-and-new-zealand-todays-guest-is-elizabeth-knox\/\">last week&#8217;s SF Signal <\/a>interview about how as an author based in New Zealand one of the big things you miss out on is the opportunity to rub shoulders with fellow authors and others in the industry such as editors and publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Walter and Cathy also had\u00a0 alot of enjoyable stuff to say about their New Zealand holiday&#8212;but the best way to find out more about that is via his own words, right here on his own site&#8212;there are some great traveller&#8217;s accounts and photographs:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walterjonwilliams.net\/\"> Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I and fellow SpecFicNZ members enjoyed the opportunity to spend an evening with Walter Jon Williams and his wife Cathy, who are currently holidaying in New Zealand. It&#8217;s always nice to catch up with other writers, especially one as long established as Walter&#8212;as well as (fan gal moment!) meeting the author of such longstanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461","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=17461"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17469,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions\/17469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}