{"id":32247,"date":"2016-05-13T06:35:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32247"},"modified":"2016-05-13T00:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T12:06:02","slug":"a-conversation-with-mary-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/a-conversation-with-mary-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Mary Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9668\" style=\"width: 117px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/an-interview-with-mary-victoria-author-of-oracles-fire-giveaway\/mvictoria2-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9668\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9668\" class=\"wp-image-9668 \" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MVictoria2-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"MVictoria2\" width=\"107\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MVictoria2-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MVictoria2-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MVictoria2.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 107px) 100vw, 107px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Victoria<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Only <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/05\/07\/its-interview-time-with-civilian-reader\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a> I maintained and averred that <em>&#8220;in the writing \u2018verse, interviews always come thick and fast around book publication day and then gradually taper off.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29607\" style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/daughter-of-blood-the-wall-of-night-book-three-uk-cover-revealed\/daughter-of-blood-by-helen-lowe\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29607\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-29607\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-95x150.png\" alt=\"UK\/AU\/NZ\" width=\"95\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-95x150.png 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-650x1024.png 650w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe.png 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just to prove me wrong, this week I got together with my friend and fellow author, Mary Victoria, for an indepth conversation on matters that included <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a>, developing the character of Myr (<em>the<\/em> Daughter of Blood herself), and researching the book.<\/p>\n<p>As always when conversing with Mary, the discussion is broad in scope, insightful, and not a run-through of all the usual suspects, question-wise.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29736\" style=\"width: 103px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/08\/01\/revealed-at-last-the-us-cover-for-daughter-of-blood-the-wall-of-night-book-three\/daughter-of-blood_front-cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-29736\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-93x150.jpg\" alt=\"USA\" width=\"93\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I hope you will head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/maryvictoria.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicles of the Tree<\/a> and check out:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/maryvictoria.co.uk\/?p=4751\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Victoria &amp; Helen Lowe in Conversation<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>And do say hi to Mary while you&#8217;re over there.<\/p>\n<p>Like me, she enjoys hearing from visitors and always replies to comments.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9679\" style=\"width: 303px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/an-interview-with-mary-victoria-author-of-oracles-fire-giveaway\/tree\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9679\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9679\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tree.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Victoria's world Tree; art by Frank Victoria - used with permission\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tree.jpg 293w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tree-146x150.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Victoria&#8217;s world of the Tree; art by Frank Victoria &#8211; used with permission<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only last week I maintained and averred that &#8220;in the writing \u2018verse, interviews always come thick and fast around book publication day and then gradually taper off.&#8221; Just to prove me wrong, this week I got together with my friend and fellow author, Mary Victoria, for an indepth conversation on matters that included Daughter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing","category-my-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32247","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=32247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32250,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32247\/revisions\/32250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}