{"id":39040,"date":"2021-04-01T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=39040"},"modified":"2021-03-29T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T00:16:51","slug":"coming-up-later-today-an-interview-with-kristin-cashore-on-supernatural-underground-plus-a-giveaway-of-winterkeep-for-nz-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/coming-up-later-today-an-interview-with-kristin-cashore-on-supernatural-underground-plus-a-giveaway-of-winterkeep-for-nz-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Up Later Today: An Interview With Kristin Cashore on Supernatural Underground &#8212; Plus a Giveaway of &#8220;Winterkeep&#8221; for NZ Readers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36221\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Later today, when the calendar turns over to April 1 on US Eastern Standard Time, I&#8217;ll be posting an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/kristincashore.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristin Cashore<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>\u00a0(SU.)<\/p>\n<p>The interview will be the fourth of the <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<\/a> series that I&#8217;m currently posting in my first of the month blog spot. We&#8217;ll be talking the magic of Kristin&#8217;s <strong>Graceling Realm<\/strong> series as well as her recently published <strong><em>Winterkeep<\/em><\/strong>, which is the fourth novel in the series.<\/p>\n<p>As the interview will post on the SU reasonably late today in NZ time, I&#8217;ll post again here tomorrow to supply the link &#8212; PLUS courtesy of Kristin&#8217;s publisher Gollancz, I have a copy of <em>Winterkeep<\/em> to give away to a New Zealand reader.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39007\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39007\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39007\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Winterkeep_KristinCashore_Gollancz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Winterkeep_KristinCashore_Gollancz.jpg 311w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Winterkeep_KristinCashore_Gollancz-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Winterkeep_KristinCashore_Gollancz-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gorgeous innit? And as you&#8217;ll see when the SU interview loads, Kristin has wonderful new covers for all her books, from both the Graceling Realm&#8217;s US and UK-based publishers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll supply all the details for the giveaway with tomorrow&#8217;s post, but it will follow the usual format of <em>&#8220;comment here to go in a random draw, probably to be made around 7-10 days hence.&#8221; <\/em>I am sure many of you will be very familiar with the drill! Don&#8217;t comment yet , though &#8212; wait for tomorrow&#8217;s post. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy the interview. I am *pretty sure* you will, because Kristin has some great observations to make about magic in her Graceling world.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-39044\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bitterblue_UK_New-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bitterblue_UK_New-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bitterblue_UK_New-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bitterblue_UK_New.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/>Related Interviews from the Backlist:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">In the meantime, you might enjoy rereading the interview I did with Kristin in 2012, which coincided with the launch of <em>Bitterblue<\/em> (Graceling Realm #3):<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/an-interview-with-kristin-cashore-author-of-bitterblue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An Interview With Kristin Cashore\u2014Author of <em>Bitterblue<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-35895 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GatheringOfLost_Blue-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GatheringOfLost_Blue-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GatheringOfLost_Blue-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/GatheringOfLost_Blue.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/>Plus, Kristin and I collaborated to bring you this insider conversation between Malian and Bitterblue, in 2013, which featured on Kristin&#8217;s blog:<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/kristincashore.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/guest-post-helen-lowe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Bitterblue of Monsea in Conversation with Heir Malian of Night<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later today, when the calendar turns over to April 1 on US Eastern Standard Time, I&#8217;ll be posting an interview with Kristin Cashore on the Supernatural Underground\u00a0(SU.) The interview will be the fourth of the Magic Systems In Fantasy series that I&#8217;m currently posting in my first of the month blog spot. We&#8217;ll be talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giveaways","category-other-writers","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040","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=39040"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39048,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040\/revisions\/39048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}