{"id":38882,"date":"2021-02-01T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38882"},"modified":"2021-02-01T23:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:19:26","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-later-today-t-frohock-magic-in-a-song-with-teeth-los-nefilim-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/on-supernatural-underground-later-today-t-frohock-magic-in-a-song-with-teeth-los-nefilim-3\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground Later Today &#8212; T Frohock &#038; Magic In &#8220;A Song With Teeth&#8221; (LOS NEFILIM #3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright 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\" \/>Later today, the second in my <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/happy-new-year-ushering-in-year-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magic Systems in Fantasy series<\/a> will be posting on the <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> (sometime earlyish on February 1, US Standard Time.)<\/p>\n<p>This month I&#8217;m interviewing Teresa Frohock about the magic in her LOS NEFILIM series, with a particular focus on <strong><em>A Song With Teeth<\/em><\/strong>, the final novel in the current trilogy, which will be OUT on February 9!<\/p>\n<p>Regulars here have no doubt grokked to the fact I am a Teresa Frohock fan, as well as a friend-in-writing, but even allowing for a certain degree of natural bias, I have to tell you that her A&#8217;s to my Q&#8217;s are absolutely &#8220;stonking.&#8221; (With thanks to the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosiealysii?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosie Cooper<\/a> for adding so evocative a word to my lexicon. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38883\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SongwithTeeth_pb-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SongwithTeeth_pb-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SongwithTeeth_pb-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SongwithTeeth_pb-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SongwithTeeth_pb-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SongwithTeeth_pb.jpg 1902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nMeanwhile, here&#8217;s a taster:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>&#8220;<strong>TF:<\/strong> For those who haven\u2019t read the series, the nefilim work their magic through music, light, and movement by creating sigils. They experience sound accompanied by color\u2014a form of chromesthesia\u2014that enables them to use the vibrations of color to shape their sigils, which manifest their willpower into reality.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>The world the nefilim inhabit is the very real world of the early twentieth century, so their magic is quite often dependent on the science and music of the period. As they learn new things, they incorporate this knowledge into spells. A good example is Carme\u2019s fascination with the Devil\u2019s Fingers [Clathrus archeri], a type of fungus that she mimics with a very nasty spell that she inflicts on her enemies. &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And there is so much <em>moar<\/em>, all equally indepth and offering a wonderful insight into the LOS NEFILIM world.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32377\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Los-Nefilim-Book-187x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Los-Nefilim-Book-187x300.png 187w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Los-Nefilim-Book-93x150.png 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Los-Nefilim-Book.png 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be checking in again later this evening to add the specific link for the Q&amp;A &#8212; &amp; here it is!<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/an-interview-with-t-frohock-talking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An Interview with T Frohock &#8212; Talking Magic in A Song With Teeth &amp; the Los Nefilim Series<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>But you can also just click on the main <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> link. The\u00a0 Q&amp;A should be at the top of the masthead for a couple of days, if you take that route &#8212; and only a very brief scrolldown, after that. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37841 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Crown-of-Bones_AK-Wilder-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"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-200x300.jpg 200w, 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: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, why not take a look at last month&#8217;s interview with AK Wilder, if you havena already:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/an-interview-with-ak-wilder-talking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magic Systems in Fantasy: AK Wilder Talks\u00a0<em>Crown Of Bones<\/em>\u00a0with Helen Lowe on the Supernatural Underground<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-36370 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Where-Oblivion-Lives-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Where-Oblivion-Lives-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Where-Oblivion-Lives-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Where-Oblivion-Lives.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>Or check out what I had to say about LOS NEFILIM in my Romance in Fantasy series in 2019 (also on the SU):<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/10\/03\/on-supernatural-underground-now-year-of-romance-in-fantasy-8-teresa-frohocks-where-oblivion-lives-endless-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#8 Teresa Frohock&#8217;s Where Oblivion Lives and Endless Love<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later today, the second in my Magic Systems in Fantasy series will be posting on the Supernatural Underground (sometime earlyish on February 1, US Standard Time.) This month I&#8217;m interviewing Teresa Frohock about the magic in her LOS NEFILIM series, with a particular focus on A Song With Teeth, the final novel in the current [&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-38882","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\/38882","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=38882"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38890,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38882\/revisions\/38890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}