{"id":1274,"date":"2011-07-15T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T01:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2011-07-15T19:16:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T01:16:52","slug":"guest-post-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may have read the long article on <a href=\"http:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/epic_interview1\/\">epic fantasy at Clarkesworld<\/a> built on interviews with fantasy writers, editors, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Robin McKinley, whose blog is my just-before-bedtime reading, was one of those interviewed and she referenced the article in her blog last night.<\/p>\n<p>I threw a comment out on her discussion board, as I didn&#8217;t exactly agree with everything everyone interviewed had said, and she asked if she could use it&#8211;perhaps expanded a bit&#8211;as a guest-post on her blog.\u00a0 Uh&#8230;(scraping jaw off the floor)&#8230;certainly.\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0\u00a0 Honored &amp; delighted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So for those interested in what I said about epic fantasy, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/robinmckinleysblog.com\/\">the link to her blog<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 You can read the blog or discussion group without registering, but you can&#8217;t comment without registering.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I happen to be a McKinley fan, and I particularly enjoy her blog (with footnotes!\u00a0 My stars and garters, can that woman do footnotes&#8211;to the footnotes, too.)\u00a0 We have mutual interests beyond writing (photography, knitting, horses&#8230;) \u00a0 She&#8217;s already fixed one misspelled word and a couple of awkwardnesses for me; anything else wrong is all my fault.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes writers go off and write in pastures new&#8230;I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve done a guest-post on another writer&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may have read the long article on epic fantasy at Clarkesworld built on interviews with fantasy writers, editors, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Robin McKinley, whose blog is my just-before-bedtime reading, was one of those interviewed and she referenced the article in her blog last night. I threw a comment out on her discussion board, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,5],"tags":[62,107],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-the-writing-life","tag-craft-of-writing","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}