{"id":29247,"date":"2015-06-04T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29247"},"modified":"2015-06-03T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T05:36:14","slug":"the-top-25-sf-signal-posts-for-may-i-make-the-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/the-top-25-sf-signal-posts-for-may-i-make-the-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 25 SF Signal Posts For May: I Make The Cut!"},"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>I was thrilled to receive an email from John De Nardo of <a href=\"http:\/\/sfsignal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SF Signal<\/a> yesterday, advising that last month&#8217;s feature post on Dianora Di Certando&#8212;from Guy Gavriel Kay&#8217;s novel, <strong><em>Tigana<\/em><\/strong>&#8212;was one of the Signal&#8217;s Top 25 posts for May: w00t!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/22\/fantasy-heroines-that-rock-my-world-on-sf-signal-4-dianora-di-certando\/tigana\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29128\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tigana-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tigana\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tigana-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tigana-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tigana.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>And although I&#8217;m not taking way from my own role in having written the article, I do think a great deal of the credit must go to Guy Gavriel Kay for having penned so memorable a character as Dianora, in such a compelling and enduring book as <strong><em>Tigana<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the Top 25 posts here:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2015\/06\/top-25-sf-signal-posts-for-may-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Top 25 SF Signal Posts For May<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>And read, or re-read, the Dianora post, here:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2015\/05\/guest-post-helen-lowe-fantasy-heroines-rock-world-dianora-di-certando-tigana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Lowe On Fantasy Heroines That Rock Her World: Dianora Di Certando<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Looking back, I realise it&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve made the SF Signal Top 25. It has happened once before, way back in January 2012, for the post:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/guest-post-helen-lowe-asks-do-we-need-to-make-epic-fantasy-new\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do We Need To Make Epic Fantasy New?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As I said then, and would still echo now: \u201cdoin\u2019 alright\u201d for a gal from the far side of the world! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thrilled to receive an email from John De Nardo of SF Signal yesterday, advising that last month&#8217;s feature post on Dianora Di Certando&#8212;from Guy Gavriel Kay&#8217;s novel, Tigana&#8212;was one of the Signal&#8217;s Top 25 posts for May: w00t! And although I&#8217;m not taking way from my own role in having written the article, [&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-29247","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\/29247","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=29247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29251,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29247\/revisions\/29251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}