{"id":3044,"date":"2011-01-07T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2011-01-06T23:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T10:44:47","slug":"its-friday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/its-friday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Friday …"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday and I’ll confess to having taken things a little easy this week, giving myself a breather having finished the manuscript (ms) for WALL2—working title, The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>—on 1 January. I’ll be starting serious revision next week, but the main task I’ve been doing this week is the glossary—or “grossary” as I started calling it with Heir<\/em>, both because it was … um … quite large, and also because of the large number of monsters contained therein … But I love glossaries, especially with “big” stories, as I find they help keep track of the characters, and also artefacts and places within the ms—to me, glossaries are part of the essential “texture” of the epic Fantasy!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I’ve also gone back to the ‘to be read’ pile on the book table this week, which still includes Justin Cronin’s The Crossing<\/strong><\/em> and the 3-book set of Cassandra Clare\u2019s Mortal Instruments<\/strong> series. Since December 19<\/a>, I’ve also added in Dark Moon<\/strong><\/em>, the second in Meredith Ann Pierce’s “Firebringer” trilogy and my friend Beth-Anne Miller’s debut romance novel, Into the Scottish Mist, <\/strong><\/em>which is being published on February 4<\/strong> in the USA . I’ll be doing an interview with Beth-Anne on the Supernatural Underground<\/strong> on 1 February<\/strong> and she will also be doing a guest post here on “…Anything, Really” <\/em>on February 4 itself.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Also coming up on the interview front is Mary Victoria with Samiha’s Song, <\/strong><\/em>the second in her “Chronicles of the Tree” series, which began with Tymon’s Flight<\/strong><\/em>. I’ll be interviewing Mary here on 15 February, and am really looking forward to reading the book.<\/p>\n

Right now I’m in the middle of William Gibson’s Zero History <\/strong><\/em>and enjoying it, almost as much as Spook Country<\/strong><\/em>, which I thought was ‘absolutely fabulous.’<\/p>\n

So how about you? What are you all reading right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday and I’ll confess to having taken things a little easy this week, giving myself a breather having finished the manuscript (ms) for WALL2—working title, The Gathering of the Lost—on 1 January. I’ll be starting serious revision next week, but the main task I’ve been doing this week is the glossary—or “grossary” as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","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=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}