{"id":40102,"date":"2022-03-17T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40102"},"modified":"2022-03-13T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T03:41:47","slug":"when-it-comes-to-worldbuilding-my-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/03\/17\/when-it-comes-to-worldbuilding-my-books\/","title":{"rendered":"When It Comes to Worldbuilding &#038; My Books&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, I posted a list of previous worldbuilding posts that specifically focused on my own books, only to realize afterward that when it comes to these two topics, the bullseye category is probably <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/a-geography-of-haarth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Geography of Haarth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3149\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3149\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wallofnight_map_small-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wallofnight_map_small-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wallofnight_map_small.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wall of Night Series map; artist Peter Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I posted the series in two instalments, the first over 2013 &#8211; 2014, and focused on locales in\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/heirofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36405\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Helen_Lowe_TWON_fan_495w-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Helen_Lowe_TWON_fan_495w-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Helen_Lowe_TWON_fan_495w-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Helen_Lowe_TWON_fan_495w.png 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second instalment ran from February 2017 through until December 2019, and basically updated the series to accommodate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/daughterofblood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29736\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29736\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"daughter-of-blood-by-helen-lowe\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29607\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29607\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-95x150.png 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-650x1024.png 650w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe.png 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since it has its own\u00a0 title under Categories in the far-right-hand sidebar, those who&#8217;re interested can peruse it at their leisure, from <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/a-geography-of-haarth-academy-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academy Island<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/a-geography-of-haarth-wymark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wymark<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/02\/09\/a-geography-of-haarth-aeris-updated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aeris<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/12\/26\/a-geography-of-haarth-winter-country-updated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winter Country<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/a-geography-of-haarth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Geography of Haarth<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_3149\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\" wp-image-3149\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wallofnight_map_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wallofnight_map_small.jpg 800w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wallofnight_map_small-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wall of Night Series map; artist Peter Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, I posted a list of previous worldbuilding posts that specifically focused on my own books, only to realize afterward that when it comes to these two topics, the bullseye category is probably A Geography of Haarth. I posted the series in two instalments, the first over 2013 &#8211; 2014, and focused on locales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-geography-of-haarth","category-about-my-books","category-epicfantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102","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=40102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40108,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102\/revisions\/40108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}