{"id":7154,"date":"2011-08-04T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2011-08-04T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T19:54:09","slug":"fun-with-thornspell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/fun-with-thornspell\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With “Thornspell”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On July 24<\/a> I talked about “being\u00a0 in the lull”, that happy time when you have passed one book deadline and the next one is not immediately looming, and you can take a few deep breaths and play catch up with the rest of your life. And then, if you’re really lucky, you get a bit of a holiday and then<\/em> what happens is you start to get itchy fingers—you begin thinking about the next book, and other books that could<\/em> happen after that, as well as shorter stories that could evolve out of the worlds and characters you have already created.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, as I put my authorial feet up on the metaphorical porch rail and chill out between completing The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two<\/strong> on 1 July and wait for the copyedit to arrive in the next week or so, that is exactly what I have been doing. Obviously I have been thinking a lot about launching into Daughter of Blood, <\/em>The Wall of Night Book Three<\/strong>—but I have also found myself thinking about the Thornspell<\/strong><\/em> story. A couple of ideas for potential spinoffs to the main novel have come bubbling up (& I love how that happens when you have that precious “suppin’ whisky on the metaphorical porch” time) but I’ve also been thinking how cool it would be to have some short story fun with the characters right here on the blog.<\/p>\n

And then I got to thinking that it would be even more fun if you<\/em> were to tell me the Thornspell<\/strong><\/em> character you would most like to have a standalone short story written for, or about—as well as why, based on that character’s exploits in the Thornspell<\/em><\/strong> story.<\/p>\n

So here’s the deal:<\/strong><\/p>\n