{"id":28442,"date":"2015-03-12T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28442"},"modified":"2015-03-11T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T07:40:10","slug":"im-interviewed-indepth-by-lorna-suzuki-plus-more-on-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/im-interviewed-indepth-by-lorna-suzuki-plus-more-on-womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Interviewed Indepth by Lorna Suzuki &#8212; Plus More On Women&#8217;s History Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26749\" style=\"width: 115px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/awkward-paper-cut-writers-on-writing-fantasy-and-adventure-on-page-and-screen\/helenl3v2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26749\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26749\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-26749\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/HelenL3v2-105x150.jpg\" alt=\"Talking about adventurous Fantasy, as it happens!\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/HelenL3v2-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/HelenL3v2.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bein&#8217; all authorial \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m the featured author this week on Canadian YA author, Lorna Suzuki&#8217;s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmobileme.com\/imagochronicles9\/IMAGO_FANTASY_REALM\/Blog\/Entries\/2015\/3\/7_Helen_Lowe_Interview.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>All Kinds Of Writing<\/strong><\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p>Lorna has had the very great good fortune to have her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmobileme.com\/imagochronicles9\/IMAGO_FANTASY_REALM\/The_Books\/Entries\/2010\/9\/13_Imago_Chronicles__Book_One%2C_A_Warriors_Tale.html\" target=\"_blank\">Imago<\/a> series optioned by a major film company &#8212; but she still has time to chat with her fellow authors. She asked some indepth questions about my books and writing life, but just to get you started, here&#8217;s a taster:<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"paragraph_style\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;<strong>LS:<\/strong> What is the most important lesson you\u2019ve learned on the road to publication?<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>HL:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Just this: it\u2019s the story that matters. It\u2019s your only pilot star.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>Hsst:<\/em> there&#8217;s also another wee <strong><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/strong> snippet tucked in there&#8212;let me know if you find it! \ud83d\ude09 (No spoilers, though, I promise!)<\/p>\n<p>But to do that you have to check out the full interview&#8212;and it&#8217;s right here:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmobileme.com\/imagochronicles9\/IMAGO_FANTASY_REALM\/Blog\/Entries\/2015\/3\/7_Helen_Lowe_Interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lorna Suzuki Interviews Helen Lowe<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20677\" style=\"width: 109px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/01\/fun-with-friends-on-sf-signal-i-interview-gillian-polack\/gillian-polack\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20677\" class=\"wp-image-20677 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gillian-Polack-99x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gillian Polack\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gillian-Polack-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gillian-Polack-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gillian-Polack.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gillian Polack<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>&#8220;Staying The Course&#8221;: It&#8217;s Women&#8217;s History Month &amp; Gillian Polack Has A Great Series Running<\/h3>\n<p>As mentioned a few weeks back, Australian author\/editor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianpolack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gillian Polack<\/a>, is curating a blog carnival for Women\u2019s History Month. The carnival comprises women writers posting on the theme of\u00a0\u00a0\u201cStaying the Course\u201d and there have already been some fabulous contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianpolack.com\/mary-victoria-womens-history-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">I always heart anything my friend and fellow author, Mary Victoria, has to say<\/a>&#8212;not least because she always manages a little drollery. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I also really enjoyed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianpolack.com\/wendy-orr-womens-history-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">inaugural post by Wendy Orr<\/a> (of <strong>Nim&#8217;s Island<\/strong> fame), which certainly delivers on the theme &#8216;with spades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And most recently really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianpolack.com\/joyce-chng-womens-history-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joyce Chng&#8217;s revelation of a lifelong love affair with Joan of Arc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All great stuff &#8212; do check it out here, on:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianpolack.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gillian&#8217;s Polack&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the featured author this week on Canadian YA author, Lorna Suzuki&#8217;s, All Kinds Of Writing blog. Lorna has had the very great good fortune to have her Imago series optioned by a major film company &#8212; but she still has time to chat with her fellow authors. She asked some indepth questions about my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-interviews","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28442","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=28442"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28451,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28442\/revisions\/28451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}