{"id":43398,"date":"2025-10-20T21:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43398"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:01:40","slug":"whats-up-on-the-su-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/10\/20\/whats-up-on-the-su-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Up On The SU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of great posts, that&#8217;s what!<\/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>Starting &#8212; of course(!) &#8212; with my October <a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/great-leaders-in-speculative-fiction-9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leadership post on Katsa and Bitterblue from Kristin Cashore&#8217;s Graceling Realms<\/a> series. Just icymi when I gave it a shoutout earlier in the month:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14409\" style=\"width: 156px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14409\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14409\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Bitterblue3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Bitterblue3.jpg 146w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Bitterblue3-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Plus there&#8217;s not one, but two great <strong>Art of Adaptation<\/strong> posts from Kim Falconer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/the-art-of-adaptation-take-five.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take Five\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2025\/09\/the-art-of-adaptation-crafting-mood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crafting Mood with Language<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36331\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36331\" class=\" wp-image-36331\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NameCharacterDraw-003-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NameCharacterDraw-003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NameCharacterDraw-003-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NameCharacterDraw-003-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NameCharacterDraw-003-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is nothing&#8211;absolutely nothing&#8211;half so much worth doing as putting one&#8217;s feet up with a book&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both are definitely worth your time and a look-see, especially for those interested in the &#8216;behind the Scenes&#8217; of the writing life. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>There;s also a great backlist post from Merrie Destefano, anticipating Halloween (not long now!):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/from-backlist-halloween-cometh-by.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Halloween Cometh<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42917\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shade-small-awards_orig-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shade-small-awards_orig-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shade-small-awards_orig-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shade-small-awards_orig.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While Karina Cooper shares why:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2025\/09\/from-backlist-i-wish-i-could-tell-you.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;I Wish I Could Tell You I&#8217;m A Better Guy&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36003\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36003\" class=\" wp-image-36003\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/han-solo_1-268x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/han-solo_1-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/han-solo_1-134x150.png 134w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/han-solo_1-768x858.png 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/han-solo_1-916x1024.png 916w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/han-solo_1.png 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Han Solo the quintessential &#8220;lovable rogue&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Plenty to be going on with &#8212; enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of great posts, that&#8217;s what! Starting &#8212; of course(!) &#8212; with my October Leadership post on Katsa and Bitterblue from Kristin Cashore&#8217;s Graceling Realms series. Just icymi when I gave it a shoutout earlier in the month: Plus there&#8217;s not one, but two great Art of Adaptation posts from Kim Falconer: Take Five\u00a0 Crafting [&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-43398","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\/43398","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=43398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43403,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43398\/revisions\/43403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}