{"id":39239,"date":"2021-06-03T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=39239"},"modified":"2021-06-02T21:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T09:14:26","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-now-magic-systems-in-fantasy-6-with-amanda-arista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/06\/03\/on-supernatural-underground-now-magic-systems-in-fantasy-6-with-amanda-arista\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground Now:  Magic Systems In Fantasy #6 with Amanda Arista"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28246\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28246\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-28246\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Amanda_Arista-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Amanda_Arista-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Amanda_Arista.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Arista<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wow! 1 June has been and gone <em>already<\/em> &#8212; the year feels as if it is sprinting by!<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, you know what the first of the month means: I\u2019ve posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/an-interview-with-amanda-arista-talking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> (Which I have also been doing for eleven years, along with m\u2019own blog, as mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/05\/31\/the-11th-anniversary-of-the-blog-looking-ahead-to-the-backlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Monday<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s post is with fellow Supernatural Underground author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amandaarista.com\/?page_id=26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Amanda Arista<\/strong><\/a>, who writes two urban fantasy series: <strong>Diaries of an Urban Panther<\/strong> and the <strong>Merci Lanard Files<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39242\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TRUTH_image-1-300x240.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TRUTH_image-1-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TRUTH_image-1-150x120.png 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TRUTH_image-1-768x614.png 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TRUTH_image-1-1024x818.png 1024w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TRUTH_image-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amanda writes heroines with strong \u2018voices\u2019, spins tales with a great sense of place, and rocks a pretty good mystery\/thriller to go with her paranormal urban world and Wanderer (predominantly but not exclusively Shifter) societies.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample of what Amanda has to say in the interview:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;As I look back on what I have written and the stories that interest me the most, it is the universality of the traditions that interest me, where I find real magic and meaning in life. For example, every folklore has a Shifter story. Japan, German, Native American. There is a fundamental story about a person who slips their skin into another form. Some are the good guys and some are the bad guys. That informed the origins of my own story, that wanderers came first, before humans, and then humans spread out across the world telling the stories of these magical creatures. Again, it was all about finding something in the real world and building the magical explanation around it.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s so much more and all of it good: just head on over to <strong>Supernatural Underground<\/strong> to read the rest:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/an-interview-with-amanda-arista-talking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amanda Arista Talks the Magic In Her <i>Diaries Of An Urban Panther<\/i>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<i>Merci Lanard Files<\/i>\u00a0Series<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39243\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DiariesofanUrbanPanther_Ebook-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DiariesofanUrbanPanther_Ebook-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DiariesofanUrbanPanther_Ebook-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DiariesofanUrbanPanther_Ebook-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DiariesofanUrbanPanther_Ebook-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DiariesofanUrbanPanther_Ebook.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! 1 June has been and gone already &#8212; the year feels as if it is sprinting by! Nonetheless, you know what the first of the month means: I\u2019ve posted on Supernatural Underground (Which I have also been doing for eleven years, along with m\u2019own blog, as mentioned on Monday.) This month\u2019s post is with [&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-39239","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\/39239","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=39239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39246,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239\/revisions\/39246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}