{"id":32048,"date":"2016-04-20T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32048"},"modified":"2016-04-20T03:07:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:07:34","slug":"heralding-the-blood-in-the-beginning-meet-ava-sykes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/04\/20\/heralding-the-blood-in-the-beginning-meet-ava-sykes\/","title":{"rendered":"Heralding &#8220;The Blood In The Beginning&#8221; &#8212; &#038; Meet Ava Sykes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/more-gemmell-legend-award-interviews-including-with-malian\/kimfalconer_full\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14505\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14505 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KimFalconer_full-150x144.jpg\" alt=\"KimFalconer_full\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KimFalconer_full-150x144.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KimFalconer_full-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KimFalconer_full.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In 2010 I first met <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimfalconer.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Falconer<\/a> at the World Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Convention in Melbourne and we&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalunderground.blogspot.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> friends-in-writing for quite some years now.<\/p>\n<p>So I want to tell you all about Kim&#8217;s latest post on the Supernatural Undergound, where she&#8217;s previewing the cover and synopsis for her forthcoming new book, <strong><em>The Blood In The Beginning<\/em><\/strong> (Harlequin) &#8212; and introducing a new heroine, Ava <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/04\/20\/heralding-the-blood-in-the-beginning-meet-ava-sykes\/blood-in-the-beginning\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32050\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Blood-in-the-Beginning-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blood in the Beginning\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Blood-in-the-Beginning-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Blood-in-the-Beginning-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Blood-in-the-Beginning.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>Sykes who sounds quite wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;Knock down, kickass nightclub bouncer Ava Sykes takes us deep into a dystopian world and out the other side in this dark and gritty, high-action urban fantasy.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great cover quote from Traci Harding too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8220;Rich with atmosphere, intrigue an action and a heroine who just will not quit. Long live Ava Sykes!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hear, hear, I say! To see a full size cover and read the synopsis, click on over to:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalunderground.blogspot.co.nz\/2016\/04\/the-blood-in-beginning.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Blood In The Beginning<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>And if you like what you see and read, why not comment and tell Kim so? I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;d love the feedback.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010 I first met Kim Falconer at the World Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Convention in Melbourne and we&#8217;ve been Supernatural Underground friends-in-writing for quite some years now. So I want to tell you all about Kim&#8217;s latest post on the Supernatural Undergound, where she&#8217;s previewing the cover and synopsis for her forthcoming new book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-funstuff","category-other-writers","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048","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=32048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32052,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions\/32052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}