{"id":22802,"date":"2013-10-16T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22802"},"modified":"2013-10-15T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T09:01:46","slug":"around-the-traps-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/16\/around-the-traps-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busy busy with the writing of Daughter Of Blood<\/em>, The Wall of Night Three<\/strong> right now so no big blog post today, just a few interesting snippets from around the traps:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Love, Crystal and Stone<\/em><\/strong>”
\nFirst up, my fellow BookSworn<\/a> author, Teresa Frohock<\/a>, has an exclusive excerpt of her story, Love, Crystal and Stone<\/em>, on the Fantasy Book Critic website. Love, Crystal and Stone<\/em> is Teresa’s contribution to the Neverlands<\/strong> anthology edited by Rebecca Lovatt<\/a> and Roger Bellini<\/a> – there’s also a blurb about the anthology, including the other authos and stories in it, if you follow this link :<\/p>\n

Neverlands Library — & Love, Crystal and Stone<\/em> by Teresa Frohock<\/a><\/h3>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Paul Weimer reviews another fellow BookSworn author, Anne Lyle’s<\/a> novel Merchant Of Dreams<\/em><\/strong> on SF Signal:<\/p>\n

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: The Merchant of Dreams by Anne Lyle<\/a><\/h3>\n

Btw, Anne’s first novel, The Alchemist of Souls<\/strong><\/em> is a finalist for the British Fantasy Society’s Sydney J Bounds’ Award for Best Newcomer this year, to be announced at this year’s World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, at the end of this month.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Neil Gaiman On Libraries and Children Reading<\/a><\/h3>\n

— when delivering\u00a0 the second annual Reading Agency lecture (14th October) at the Barbican Centre in London. Article via The Bookseller.<\/p>\n

Why do I feature this link, other than the whole Neil Gaiman Is Awesome syndrome — because I personally feel that closing libraries, in an age when governments and just about everyone else blethers on about the important of high levels of literacy for the so-called knowledge economy, is a Giant Leap Backwards for Humankind.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

And if you missed it Monday, I’ve asked the question ” What Makes for ‘The New\u2019 in Epic Fantasy?”<\/em> and would love you to join in the conversation. Just click on:<\/p>\n

What Makes for ‘The New\u2019 in Epic Fantasy?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Busy busy with the writing of Daughter Of Blood, The Wall of Night Three right now so no big blog post today, just a few interesting snippets from around the traps: “Love, Crystal and Stone” First up, my fellow BookSworn author, Teresa Frohock, has an exclusive excerpt of her story, Love, Crystal and Stone, on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22802","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=22802"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22814,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22802\/revisions\/22814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}