{"id":28754,"date":"2015-04-13T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28754"},"modified":"2015-04-11T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T05:03:46","slug":"fantasy-heroines-that-rock-my-world-on-sf-signal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/04\/13\/fantasy-heroines-that-rock-my-world-on-sf-signal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World&#8221; On SF Signal: # 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/04\/16\/a-list-of-my-interviews-focusing-on-nz-writers-sff\/sfsignallogov4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25218\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4-300x43.jpg\" alt=\"sfsignalLogov4\" width=\"300\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4-150x21.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you enjoyed the first instalment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2015\/03\/guest-post-helen-lowe-fantasy-heroines-rocker-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World<\/a> on SF Signal, the second instalment has now posted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/04\/13\/fantasy-heroines-that-rock-my-world-on-sf-signal-2\/moon-called_briggs1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28755\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28755\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Moon-Called_Briggs1-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"Moon Called_Briggs1\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Moon-Called_Briggs1-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Moon-Called_Briggs1-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Moon-Called_Briggs1.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>This time the heroine under the spotlight is a more recent favourite, Patricia Briggs&#8217; wonderful Mercy Thompson.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;So as I said, not a big paranormal urban fantasy reader. But then I read a post by Patricia Briggs, titled <a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/2011\/04\/20\/mercy-and-her-friends-in-my-back-yard\/\">Mercy and her Friends In My Back Yard<\/a>\u2014and I definitely wanted to know more about the coyote shapeshifter, Mercy Thompson. From page one of the first novel (<strong>Moon Called<\/strong>), I was a Mercy Thompson fan, and remain an enthusiast for her continuing adventures &#8230; &#8220;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To find out the whys and wherefores, head on over and check the post out for yourself:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2015\/04\/guest-post-helen-lowe-fantasy-heroines-rock-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World: Mercy Thompson<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As always, I would love to hear your thoughts, either about my post or arguing the cause of another (urban) fantasy heroine. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoyed the first instalment of Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World on SF Signal, the second instalment has now posted. This time the heroine under the spotlight is a more recent favourite, Patricia Briggs&#8217; wonderful Mercy Thompson. &#8220;So as I said, not a big paranormal urban fantasy reader. But then I read a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-signal-guest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754","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=28754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28758,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754\/revisions\/28758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}