{"id":38793,"date":"2021-01-04T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38793"},"modified":"2021-01-03T20:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T07:58:39","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-now-magic-systems-fun-with-fellow-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/on-supernatural-underground-now-magic-systems-fun-with-fellow-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground Now: Magic Systems &#8212; &#038; Fun With Fellow Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year, dear <em>&#8220;&#8230;on Anything, Really&#8221;<\/em> friends. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37372\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37372\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Crimson_for-1-1-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Crimson_for-1-1-2020.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Crimson_for-1-1-2020-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy New Year!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been ushering the new year in on the <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> (SU) as well &#8212; how not since the first of the month <em>is<\/em> my slot!<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, taking a leaf from the book of friend and fellow author, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amandaarista.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amanda Arista<\/a>, I decided to have a theme for my SU blogging and embarked on <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2019\/02\/a-theme-for-2019-year-of-romance-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Year of Romance in Fantasy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, it was the turn of Worldbuilding (again) in Fantasy, wrapped up <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/12\/17\/wrapping-up-a-year-of-worldbuilding-in-fantasy-on-the-supernatural-underground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1777\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1777\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1777\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/wallofnight_map_small-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/wallofnight_map_small-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/wallofnight_map_small.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Year of Worldbuilding wrapped up<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This year, I&#8217;m turning the spotlight onto Magic Systems &#8212; and wherever possible, I&#8217;ll be doing this by e-chatting with fellow authors about the magic in <em>their<\/em> work. Starting with talking with my friend and fellow SU author, AK Wilder, about her <a href=\"http:\/\/akwilder.com\/order-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new-out Fantasy, <strong><em>Crown of Bones<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, on her release day, which is tomorrow&#8212;5 January!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37841\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37841\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37841\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Crown-of-Bones_AK-Wilder-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Crown-of-Bones_AK-Wilder-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Crown-of-Bones_AK-Wilder-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Crown-of-Bones_AK-Wilder-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Crown-of-Bones_AK-Wilder-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Crown-of-Bones_AK-Wilder.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almost here!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To read all about it, click on:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/happy-new-year-ushering-in-year-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ushering In A Year of Friends, Fellow Authors, &amp; Magic Systems<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>And do check in tomorrow for my interview with AK Wilder&#8212;whom some of you will already know well as Kim Falconer. \ud83d\ude42 Because this series is YA\/New Adult she&#8217;s writing as AK Wilder, to mark the distinction from her adult series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year, dear &#8220;&#8230;on Anything, Really&#8221; friends. \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve been ushering the new year in on the Supernatural Underground (SU) as well &#8212; how not since the first of the month is my slot! In 2019, taking a leaf from the book of friend and fellow author, Amanda Arista, I decided to have 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":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38793","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=38793"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38805,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38793\/revisions\/38805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}