{"id":43595,"date":"2026-02-03T08:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43595"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:21:47","slug":"new-on-supernatural-underground-for-2026-a-year-of-heroines-in-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/02\/03\/new-on-supernatural-underground-for-2026-a-year-of-heroines-in-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"New on Supernatural Underground for 2026 &#8211; A Year of Heroines in Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep that&#8217;s right &#8212; it&#8217;s not only a new year but time for a new post series on the <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>, and this year&#8217;s theme in Heroines, mainly in fantasy literature though I may do a sidestep into science fiction from time to time. Who knows? The only to find out is to follow the magical mystery tour. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just heroines though. To celebrate getting a manuscript to Harper Voyager, I am not only highlighting a favourite character from a loved book or series, but featuring a heroine from the WALL series as well.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with Malian, of course&#8212;and her companion heroines for the first post are Aerin, from Robin McKinley&#8217;s <strong><em>The Hero and the Crown<\/em><\/strong>, and Elfrid, of Ru Emerson&#8217;s <strong><em>The Princess of Flames<\/em><\/strong> fame.<\/p>\n<p>To read and enjoy, click on:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2026\/02\/welcome-to-year-of-heroines-1-aerin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Year of Heroines &#8212; Aerin, Elfrid, &amp; Malian of Night<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31990\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hero-and-the-Crown-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hero-and-the-Crown-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hero-and-the-Crown-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hero-and-the-Crown.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18354\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Princess-of-Flames-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Princess-of-Flames-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Princess-of-Flames-87x150.jpg 87w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Princess-of-Flames.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30117\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep that&#8217;s right &#8212; it&#8217;s not only a new year but time for a new post series on the Supernatural Underground, and this year&#8217;s theme in Heroines, mainly in fantasy literature though I may do a sidestep into science fiction from time to time. Who knows? The only to find out is to follow the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43595","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=43595"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43601,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43595\/revisions\/43601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}