{"id":7265,"date":"2011-08-08T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2011-08-07T23:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T11:45:06","slug":"fun-with-thornspell-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/08\/fun-with-thornspell-reprise\/","title":{"rendered":"“Fun With Thornspell” Reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last Thursday I launched a “Fun With Thornspell” month<\/a><\/strong>—basically I told you how I had gotten itchy fingers over my holidays and thought how cool it would be to have some short story fun with the Thornspell<\/em> characters right here on the blog. And even more fun if you<\/em> were to tell me the Thornspell<\/em> character you would most like to have a standalone short story written for, or about\u2014as well as why, based on that character\u2019s exploits in the Thornspell<\/em> story.<\/p>\n

I also said that I’ll be keeping the opportunity going over the next month through until September 1<\/span>, with a Fun with Thornspell<\/em> feature every Thursday in which I\u2019ll be exploring some aspect of the book from my point of view as the author. And<\/em> <\/strong>at the end of that time three judges will be deciding on the very best \u201cwhy\u201d put forward\u2014and I will then write a story for that character and post it right here on the blog, with a personal dedication to the nominator!<\/p>\n

Plus<\/strong> if any of the commenters are 1) pupils at either primary\/intermediate\/secondary school; and ii) enter the name of their school in their comment, they will go into a draw to win one of 3 copies of Thornspell<\/em> for their school library. So if you’re at school or know someone who is, do spread the word.<\/p>\n

So that’s what we’re doing—and there’s already a fantastic start on comments and character nominations, with some really great suggestions for possible short stories, on last Thursday’s post, here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, I also pointed you to the Thornspell<\/em> website<\/a><\/strong>, where every image conceals a quote from the book.\u00a0 But just to get even more in the spirit, here’s a reprise on the video clip of my Thornspell<\/em> reading at ConText (the National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention held over Queen’s Birthday weekend this year.)<\/p>\n