{"id":2142,"date":"2010-10-29T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T02:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2010-11-21T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:34:19","slug":"out-of-this-eos-the-heir-of-night-characters-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/out-of-this-eos-the-heir-of-night-characters-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of this Eos: &#8220;The Heir of Night&#8221; &#038; Characters Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1888\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HeirUSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1888\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1888\" title=\"HeirUSA\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HeirUSA-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HeirUSA-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HeirUSA.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have a guest post on my US publisher&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/outofthiseos.typepad.com\/\"><strong>Out of this Eos <\/strong><\/a>blog today, on <em>&#8220;The Heir of Night<\/em> and Characters Under Pressure.&#8221;\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an intro:<\/p>\n<p><em>Last week, I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/10\/21\/the-big-idea-helen-lowe\/\" target=\"_self\">guest post on John Scalzi\u2019s <em>Whatever <\/em>blog<\/a>, talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/category\/big-idea\/\" target=\"_self\">the \u201cBig Idea\u201d<\/a> behind <em>The Heir of Night, <\/em>which centers around how good and evil are often portrayed in fantasy, particularly epic fantasy. <em> <\/em>Writing that post got me thinking about how, as an author, a big idea gets to \u201cwork its way out\u201d through your story. In <em>The Heir of Night (Heir) <\/em>it\u2019s definitely all about the characters, who they are, what code of values they subscribe to\u2014and how they behave in relation to those values when the chips are down.<\/em> <em>So I guess that\u2019s why <em>Heir<\/em> is quite an adventurous story (<em>OK<\/em>, it\u2019s also because I like treks into dangerous territory, sword fights and hunts and battles with demons, to be strictly honest!) as well as being character driven:\u00a0 because it\u2019s only when the going gets tough that the person you <em>believe<\/em> you are gets tested &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/outofthiseos.typepad.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/the-heir-of-night-characters-under-pressure.html\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><em>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a guest post on my US publisher&#8217;s Out of this Eos blog today, on &#8220;The Heir of Night and Characters Under Pressure.&#8221;\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an intro: Last week, I had a guest post on John Scalzi\u2019s Whatever blog, talking about the \u201cBig Idea\u201d behind The Heir of Night, which centers around how good and [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-guest-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}