{"id":30094,"date":"2015-09-19T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T22:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=30094"},"modified":"2015-09-19T10:42:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T22:42:15","slug":"heres-what-spun-my-wheels-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/09\/19\/heres-what-spun-my-wheels-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s What Spun My Wheels This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sfsignalLogov4\"<\/a>First and foremost — how absolutely not? — was the cover reveal for Voyager’s<\/a> new look Wall Of Night series<\/a> covers — exclusive to SF Signal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The feature included a behind-the-scenes look at the cover creation process from the author and editor, so if you haven’t checked the goodness out already, do head on over and take a look. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

[EXCLUSIVE] Making Covers New: Creating An Epic Look For Helen Lowe\u2019s THE WALL OF NIGHT Series<\/a><\/h3>\n

Plus there’s a giveaway running, here:<\/p>\n

GIVEAWAY (US\/Canada Only): Win Copies of THE HEIR OF NIGHT and THE GATHERING OF THE LOST <\/a><\/h4>\n

—<\/p>\n

Kim Falconer on the Supernatural Underground:<\/h3>\n

\"KimFalconer_full\"<\/a>But there were also some equally great posts around the traps. Kicking off with Kim Falconer’s<\/a> fabulous post on the Supernatural Underground:<\/p>\n

Marinating Ideas<\/a>\"Supelogo_2\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Did you know that coffee may have shaped the history of ideas?<\/p>\n

Seriously, though, this is a wonderful post on how creativity really works—or doesn’t. Well worth your while checking out.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Margaret Atwood on Slate:<\/h3>\n

\"Chocky1\"<\/a>One of my favourite authors from the time when I was first discovering speculative fiction was John Wyndham, who is possibly most famous for The Day Of The Triffids<\/strong><\/em>. But one of his books that I enjoyed most was his last, Chocky<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So I was delighted to see this feature from Margaret Atwood<\/a> on Slate<\/a>, introducing the latest edition of Chocky <\/strong><\/em>with a retrospective look at both John Wyndham’s writing & Chocky<\/em><\/strong> itself.<\/p>\n

I think it’s excellent reading, and if it encourages you to check John Wyndham out for yourself, so much the better:<\/p>\n

Chocky, the Kindly Body Snatcher<\/a><\/h3>\n

—<\/p>\n

Ann Leckie (on her own blog):<\/h3>\n

\"Ancillary<\/a>Last but not least, I very much enjoyed this post by Ann Leckie<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What The Reader Wants<\/a><\/h3>\n

Spot on, in my humble opinion—but I’m not going to tell you what Ann said: hie thee to her site and check it out for yer ownself. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First and foremost — how absolutely not? — was the cover reveal for Voyager’s new look Wall Of Night series covers — exclusive to SF Signal. The feature included a behind-the-scenes look at the cover creation process from the author and editor, so if you haven’t checked the goodness out already, do head on over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,50,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30094","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=30094"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30108,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30094\/revisions\/30108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}