{"id":32021,"date":"2016-04-16T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T22:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32021"},"modified":"2016-04-16T10:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T22:48:42","slug":"its-women-in-scifi-fantasy-month-at-fantasy-book-cafe-im-talking-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/04\/16\/its-women-in-scifi-fantasy-month-at-fantasy-book-cafe-im-talking-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Women In SciFi & Fantasy Month at Fantasy Book Cafe — & I’m Talking Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every April since 2012, Fantasy Cafe<\/strong> has featured Women in SF&F: science fiction and fantasy, that is.<\/p>\n

Within that broad umbrella, the topic is completely open: contributors can discuss their own writing, others’ writing, the state of the genre, being a woman SF&F writer — or any other permutation on the topic.<\/p>\n

I have chosen to discuss women characters in SF&F who are leaders, both drawing on the work of other writers but also looking at the evolution of Malian as a leader in The Wall of Night<\/a> series. Here is how the post begins:<\/p>\n

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“During the course of writing Daughter of Blood, the recently published third novel in my epic fantasy quartet, The Wall of Night, I thought a great deal about leadership. This consideration took several turns, from what makes a leader in the first place, to how the form of leadership may vary depending on circumstances…”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

To read more, click on:<\/p>\n

Fantasy Cafe: Women in SF & F Month — Women As Leaders in Fantasy Fiction<\/a><\/h3>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every April since 2012, Fantasy Cafe has featured Women in SF&F: science fiction and fantasy, that is. Within that broad umbrella, the topic is completely open: contributors can discuss their own writing, others’ writing, the state of the genre, being a woman SF&F writer — or any other permutation on the topic. I have chosen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epicfantasy","category-guest-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021","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=32021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32024,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021\/revisions\/32024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}