{"id":43367,"date":"2025-10-02T22:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43367"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:54:46","slug":"now-on-supernatural-underground-tis-9-in-the-leadership-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/10\/02\/now-on-supernatural-underground-tis-9-in-the-leadership-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Now on Supernatural Underground: Tis #9 in the Leadership Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it <em>is<\/em> that time again, and <em>yes<\/em> again, I do have a new post up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39734\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the title promises, it&#8217;s post number nine in the Great Leaders in Speculative Fiction series.<\/p>\n<p>This month, I (again) couldn&#8217;t make up my mind between two characters, so I have featured both. And the characters are (drum roll), Katsa and Bitterblue from Kristin Cashore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/kristincashore.com\/books\/#graceling-realm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Graceling Realms<\/strong><\/a> series of novels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43368\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Graceling-new-2021-US-cover-HMH-682x1024-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Graceling-new-2021-US-cover-HMH-682x1024-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Graceling-new-2021-US-cover-HMH-682x1024-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Graceling-new-2021-US-cover-HMH-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both characters appear in several books, but Katsa&#8217;s story is primarily told in <strong><em>Graceling<\/em><\/strong>, and Bitterblue&#8217;s in <strong><em>Bitterblue<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To find out why I think they demonstrate some leadership chops, please do head on over to the SU and read on. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/great-leaders-in-speculative-fiction-9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Great Leaders of Speculative Fiction #9: Katsa and Bitterblue in Kristin Cashore&#8217;s Graceling Realms<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43369\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bitterblue-new-2021-US-cover-Dial-682x1024-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bitterblue-new-2021-US-cover-Dial-682x1024-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bitterblue-new-2021-US-cover-Dial-682x1024-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bitterblue-new-2021-US-cover-Dial-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it is that time again, and yes again, I do have a new post up on the Supernatural Underground. \ud83d\ude00 As the title promises, it&#8217;s post number nine in the Great Leaders in Speculative Fiction series. This month, I (again) couldn&#8217;t make up my mind between two characters, so I have featured both. And [&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-43367","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\/43367","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=43367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43373,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43367\/revisions\/43373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}