{"id":43714,"date":"2026-03-30T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43714"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:44:33","slug":"whats-up-on-the-supernatural-undergound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/03\/30\/whats-up-on-the-supernatural-undergound\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Up On the Supernatural Undergound"},"content":{"rendered":"

March has been galloping by (in the best Year of the Fire Horse fashion) but there’s still time left for an SU roundup.<\/p>\n

Starting with my 1 March post on Heroines<\/a>, which regulars here will be aware featured Yeine Darr, of NK Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms<\/em> fame, and Rowan Birchmoon from m’own The Wall of Night<\/a> series.<\/p>\n

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USA<\/p><\/div>\n

Where Heroines<\/strong> is my theme for 2026, Kim Falconer is focusing on Writers as Seers<\/strong> — and this month’s featured author, Octavia Butler,<\/a> definitely deserves that accolade, particularly for her now classic Parable of the Sower<\/em>. A prophetic tale? You bet!<\/p>\n

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In the From the Backlist quadrant, the SU is refeaturing two great posts:<\/p>\n

Modern Day Faery Tales Drawn from Fantasy and Folklore<\/a> by Terri Garey<\/p>\n

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But I Don’t Wanna, said Every Hero Ever<\/a> penned by Amanda Arista<\/p>\n

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Katniss Everdeen<\/p><\/div>\n

And if you want a good companion post to Amanda’s “But I Don’t Wanna…”<\/em>, I reckon two instalments of my Having Fun With Epic Fantasy Tropes<\/strong><\/a> series might fit the bill:<\/p>\n

A Farm Boy\/Gal Goes On A Journey<\/a> — May 7, 2018<\/p>\n

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A Prince\/Princess Finds A Destiny<\/a> — May 14, 2018<\/p>\n

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Shuri of Wakanda<\/p><\/div>\n

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March has been galloping by (in the best Year of the Fire Horse fashion) but there’s still time left for an SU roundup. Starting with my 1 March post on Heroines, which regulars here will be aware featured Yeine Darr, of NK Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms fame, and Rowan Birchmoon from m’own The Wall […]<\/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-43714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714","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=43714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43720,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714\/revisions\/43720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}