{"id":34412,"date":"2017-07-03T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=34412"},"modified":"2017-07-02T17:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T05:19:53","slug":"around-the-traps-from-black-gate-to-supernatural-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/around-the-traps-from-black-gate-to-supernatural-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Traps: From Black Gate to Supernatural Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping a low (Lowe &#8211; ha!) profile of late, beavering with the writing of WALL4 (huzza!!) &#8212; but even so, there has been a flurry of web-by activity over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29736\" style=\"width: 103px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><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=\"daughter-of-blood-by-helen-lowe\" 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<div id=\"attachment_29607\" style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><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=\"\" 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>Firstly, <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall of Night<\/a> series got a nice shout-out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Gate<\/a> last week, which is currently running a feature on <strong>&#8220;Best New Series.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Naturally I&#8217;m delighted that WALL is included on their list and for those of you who want to find out why, or simply<em> moar<\/em>, click on:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2017\/06\/27\/tournaments-isolated-outposts-and-strange-magic-the-wall-of-night-trilogy-by-helen-lowe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tournaments, Isolated Outposts, and Strange Magic: The Wall Of Night series by Helen Lowe<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/encountering-fantastic-worlds-part-1\/blue-sword\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9300\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Blue-Sword-90x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Blue-Sword-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Blue-Sword.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a>June was tagged as the #monthofjoy and to get in the spirit I participated in <a href=\"http:\/\/shaunduke.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaun Duke&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Five Faves&#8221; series. In my case I posted on:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/shaunduke.net\/fivefavesfabulousworldsofsff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Five Fabulous Worlds of SFF<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>If you get the chance to check it out, I believe you may enjoy the post &#8212; and some of the other &#8220;Faves&#8221; pieces too, including (without being exclusive):<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/shaunduke.net\/fivefavesdianawynnejones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diana Wynne Jones&#8217; Novels: A Guest Post by KV Johanson<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/shaunduke.net\/fivefavesspaceoperabooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space Opera Books by Shaun Duke <\/a><br \/>\n(our host himself \ud83d\ude42 )<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/02\/21\/something-new-on-the-supernatural-underground\/supelogo_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-28238\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Although the month has clicked over into July now, sweeping us all, willy-nilly, into the second half of 2017, I decided to stick with the &#8220;Five Favourites&#8221; theme for my Supernatural Underground post of 1 July:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.co.nz\/2017\/07\/5-favorite-fantasy-genre-romances.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Five Favourite Fantasy-Genre Romances<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Otherwise, you&#8217;ll have to head over to the Supe to find out the five I featured &#8212; because as with the worlds, of course I have too many favourites to list in just one post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping a low (Lowe &#8211; ha!) profile of late, beavering with the writing of WALL4 (huzza!!) &#8212; but even so, there has been a flurry of web-by activity over the past few weeks. Firstly, The Wall of Night series got a nice shout-out on Black Gate last week, which is currently running a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34412","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=34412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34417,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34412\/revisions\/34417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}