{"id":37702,"date":"2020-04-09T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=37702"},"modified":"2020-04-08T21:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T09:25:20","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-jan-butterworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/04\/09\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-jan-butterworth\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet the Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Jan Butterworth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0About The Characters<\/a>\u00a0post series focuses on the minor characters in\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/a>\u00a0series, in large part because:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s the presence of the smaller characters that \u201cmakes\u201d a story, creating texture around the main points of view.\u201d
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~ from my<\/em> Legend Award Finalist's Interview, 2013<\/pre>\n
Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from\u00a0The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a>, but now I\u2019m continuing on with minor characters from both\u00a0The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 in alphabetical order, of course!<\/p>\n
Today’s character is extra special, because Jan Butterworth is not only a character in The Wall of Night<\/strong> series, she’s also a real person whom I know and esteem from several NZ Natcons and through SFFANZ (Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand) — as well as giving her name to the very first Tuckerization character in any of my books.<\/p>\n
A Tuckerization, made famous by an early SF author, Wilson Tucker, is when an author uses an individual’s name for a character in a book. I’ve been offering a Tuckerization opportunity as part of the publication celebrations for each of the WALL series books—and Jan’s was the name drawn from the very first Sorting Hat, when HEIR was published.<\/p>\n
I managed to work her full name into The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>, in a way I feel works with the story and the worldbuilding. I hope readers, and Jan herself, agree. The girl below is named Jan, of course, although that detail is revealed a little later in the chapter. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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Jan Butterworth:<\/strong>\u00a0 a girl from the village of Butterworth, in Southern Aralorn<\/span><\/p>\n
“She rode into Butterworth as the poplar leaves became gold tinted. The village had an alehouse as well as a forge, with a crumbling stone tower on the edge of the nearby chestnut woods. \u201cAlthough only owls live there now,\u201d the girl who was sweeping the alehouse step told Malian, before bringing her a tankard of cool brown beer and filling the trough beside the step with water for the cob. \u201cShrines of Serru, is it?\u201d She shooed away the hens that had come pecking around the door. \u201cThere\u2019s none here, nor as far as Thorpe, from what I hear.\u201d She gazed beyond the dusty yard and the hens to the nearby chestnut woods. \u201cYou could try the Ara-fyr, although\u2014\u201d She crinkled up her eyes, her tone growing apologetic, as if she feared disappointing her visitor. \u201cThey may not have shrines to Serru or even Imul. They\u2019re uncanny strange in their ways.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
~\u00a0 from \u00a9\u00a0The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 53 \u2014 The Solitary Tower<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The\u00a0About The Characters\u00a0post series focuses on the minor characters in\u00a0The Wall Of Night\u00a0series, in large part because: \u201cI think it\u2019s the presence of the smaller characters that \u201cmakes\u201d a story, creating texture around the main points of view.\u201d ~ from my Legend Award Finalist’s Interview, 2013 Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from\u00a0The Heir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37702","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=37702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37703,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37702\/revisions\/37703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}