{"id":29626,"date":"2015-07-17T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29626"},"modified":"2015-07-16T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:46:13","slug":"so-what-kind-of-books-do-you-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/17\/so-what-kind-of-books-do-you-write\/","title":{"rendered":"“So What Kind Of Books Do You Write?”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forthcoming: The Wall Of Night Book Three\u00a0 (UK-Aus-NZ cover)<\/p><\/div>\n

A while back, someone asked me exactly that question; “So what kind<\/em> of books do you write?”<\/p>\n

Here are some of my possible answers:<\/p>\n

I see The Wall of Night<\/a> series, which I’m current working on, as “epic” and\/or “high” fantasy in the tradition of works such as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong> and Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar<\/strong> trilogy. It’s also been described as “dark fantasy,” which I would agree with to the extent that there is a great deal of darkness in the story.<\/p>\n

The Wall Of Night<\/strong> series is also:<\/p>\n

Adventurous<\/strong>\u2014this is a tale of quests and journeys, dungeon crawls and rooftop chases, battles, melees and contests of arms.<\/p>\n

\"Magical...\"<\/a>

Magical…<\/p><\/div>\n

Magical<\/strong>\u2014in fact Robin Hobb described The Heir of Night<\/a> as being imbued with “strange magic” and I think that’s a fair enough description \u2026<\/p>\n

Twist-y and Turn-y<\/strong>\u2014this is definitely not a story where, however classical the epic frame, you can ever rely on things always remaining as they initially seem\u2026<\/p>\n

I also write books that are (imho) all about:<\/p>\n

Friendship<\/strong>\u2014and the conflicts of loyalty and honor that may arise from this, both within and external to the “band of brothers” is one of the strongest themes that runs through the series.<\/p>\n

\"Friendship<\/a>

Friendship … & Love<\/p><\/div>\n

And yes, Love<\/strong>\u2014which began to come into the series in The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and evolves further in Daughter of Blood. (I’m not saying any more though, because that would be a\u2014hiss<\/em>\u2014Spoiler.)<\/p>\n

And that’s about enough to be going on with, I reckon! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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A while back, someone asked me exactly that question; “So what kind of books do you write?” Here are some of my possible answers: I see The Wall of Night series, which I’m current working on, as “epic” and\/or “high” fantasy in the tradition of works such as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29626","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=29626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29628,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29626\/revisions\/29628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}