{"id":7940,"date":"2011-09-07T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T22:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2011-09-07T10:12:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T22:12:25","slug":"around-the-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/around-the-traps\/","title":{"rendered":"Around The Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I am putting the final touches on the copyedited manuscript of The Gathering of the Lost<\/strong><\/em> today, prior to sending the last few pages off, I thought I’d point you to a few fun things happening around other blogs:<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong><\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Mary Victoria<\/strong>, author of Tymon’s Flight<\/strong><\/em> and Samiha’s Song<\/strong><\/em>, with Oracle’s Fire<\/strong><\/em>, the third in her Chronicles of the Tree<\/strong> series forthcoming in October,\u00a0 has a great series running at the moment—an illuminated dictionary of the world of the Tree! Today the series is up to “D for Dirigible”, but I am putting the link to the post where Mary introduces the series, here<\/strong><\/a> (And you can just click forward from there to each of the entries.)<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For those who love paranormal romance, Nalini\u00a0 Singh<\/a><\/strong> is celebrating the release of a new book, Archangel’s Blade<\/strong><\/em> on her blog today. You can check out the post here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And over on the Supernatural Underground<\/a> Amanda Arista has posted about the literary influences on her own writing and the origins of her own Diaries of an Urban Panther<\/strong><\/em>. It’s\u00a0 a great post and you can check it out here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Tim Jones has the itinerary for the tour to promote his new poetry collection, Men BrieflyExplained<\/strong><\/em> (isn’t that a great title?), available on his blog here<\/strong><\/a>. I have already seen a few of the poems and I think this is going to be a great book—and a great series of launch events.<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Over on SFSignal<\/strong><\/a> they have a great feature on “SFF Art: A Few Words on a Thousand Pictures”<\/strong><\/a>—definitely worth a read! (As is their whole site, in fact.)<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

And recently, Jan Butterworth from SFFANZ<\/strong><\/a> sent me through this interesting link to a post by French SFF writer Aliette de Bodard<\/strong> “On the Prevalence of US Tropes in Storytelling”<\/strong><\/em><\/a>—I am not sure I am convinced that all the examples she cites are such exclusively US tropes, but I would love to know what you think.<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Btw, Aliette de Bodard‘s <\/em>\u201cThe Jaguar House, in Shadow\u201d<\/strong>, Asimov\u2019s,<\/em> July 2010, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette this year.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I am putting the final touches on the copyedited manuscript of The Gathering of the Lost today, prior to sending the last few pages off, I thought I’d point you to a few fun things happening around other blogs: Mary Victoria, author of Tymon’s Flight and Samiha’s Song, with Oracle’s Fire, the third in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","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=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7954,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}