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(Liz means the Gemmell Legend Award<\/a>, by the way.)<\/p>\n I alluded to the reason why characters you love may die in my books in a post titled: Romance vs Reality: War & Conflict in Epic Fantasy and \u201cThe Gathering of the Lost.\u201d<\/a> Liz is a speculative fiction author herself and the current secretary of SpecFicNZ<\/a>. She features in the “Here’s SpecFicNZ–Christchurch”<\/a> series, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Brilliant, gripping, fantastic backstory: my only gripe is you write great characters I love and then you kill them! I cast my vote for GATHERING in complete good conscience that I think it deserves the award.” — (Liz means the Gemmell Legend Award, by the way.) I alluded to the reason why characters you love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291","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=21291"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21356,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions\/21356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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