{"id":1005,"date":"2014-03-02T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T07:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?page_id=1005"},"modified":"2020-05-01T05:41:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:41:58","slug":"2013-blog-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?page_id=1005","title":{"rendered":"2013 Blog Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\"><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=994\">Nick Wood \u2013 Nov\/Dec 2013: Movember &#8211; and Occupying My Body<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">This blog is different to all my preceding ones, in which I have talked about reading and writing, for the most part. Here, for the first time, I talk about my body.\nIt&#8217;s a body I&#8217;ve carried around with me for more than 52 years on this Earth currently and has generally served me well. Growing ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=994\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=979\">Nick Wood &#8211; Sept\/Oct 2013<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">This month, a few things to mention.\nFirstly, I&#8217;m pleased to have sold a short story follow up to &#8216;Of Hearts and Monkeys&#8216; called &#8216;The Girl who Called the World&#8216; to the Crossed Genres&#8217;\u00a0anthology &#8220;Fierce Family&#8220;: \u00a0http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/submissions\/fierce-family\/\u00a0 This anthology will in all likelihood be out in 2014.\nIn addition, it looks likely Tade Thompson and my joint ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=979\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=957\">Nick Wood &#8211; July\/August 2013<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Further to my previous post on AfroSF, two interesting and further reviews of the first African writers of SF anthology:\nSLIP:\u00a0http:\/\/slipnet.co.za\/view\/reviews\/o-brave-new-world-that-has-such-discourse-in-it\/\nBrittle Paper:\u00a0http:\/\/brittlepaper.com\/2013\/06\/african-science-fiction-comeback-review-afrosf-matt-omelsky\/\nAlso of note were three Afro SF &#8216;Honorable Mentions&#8217; by Gardner Dozois in his (2012) &#8216;Year&#8217;s Best Science Fiction&#8217; (30th Edition!)\u00a0http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/07\/23\/dozoiss-years-best-sf-turn.html\nSarah Lotz &#8211; Home Affairs\nEfe Okogu &#8211; Proposition 23\nNick (ahem!) Wood &#8211; Azania\nAnother valuable, exciting ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=957\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=914\">Nick Wood &#8211; May\/June 2013<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I am pleased to report that the reception of AfroSF, the first anthology of African science fiction from African writers, has been generally very positive. http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/AfroSF-Science-Fiction-African-ebook\/dp\/B00AEUH112\nI have included a broad range of links from online reviews since the publication of AfroSF, all of which make for interesting reading &#8211; often going on to contextualise the ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=914\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=903\">Nick Wood &#8211; Mar\/Apr 2013<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Cape Town and the Buzzing Genre Scene:\nI&#8216;m just back from an autumnal feeling Cape Town, visiting family and friends again, and noting just how much the local genre scene is buzzing. I finished reading Cat Hellisen&#8217;s &#8216;When The Sea is Rising Red,&#8217;\u00a0a sharp fantasy book mixing up some familiar tropes (e.g. Vampires, but as seen ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=903\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=895\">Nick Wood &#8211; Jan\/Feb 2013 &#8211; The Next Big Thing<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">A post concerning my book Azanian Bridges as (I hope!) &#8216;The Next Big Thing&#8217;\nThanks to Gary Budgen linking to me on this topic from: http:\/\/garybudgen.wordpress.com\/next-big-thing-interview\/\nThe Next Big Thing:\n1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is the title of your next book?\n\nAzanian Bridges\n\n2) Where did the idea come from for the book?\n\nMemories of working in a legally designated &#8216;black&#8217; psychiatric hospital ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=895\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=872\">Nick Wood &#8211; Jan 2013<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Just a brief, early update, to wish you all a good 2013!\nFor those perhaps interested in story podcasts, my story Lunar Voices on the Solar Wind has\u00a0been\u00a0beautfully captured\u00a0by Redstone SF here:\nhttp:\/\/redstonesciencefiction.com\/podcasts\/RSF4-Podcast-Lunar_Voices.mp3\nThe Beam Me Up podcast also covers the same story, in two episodes\u00a0http:\/\/www.beammeuppodcast.com\/beam-me-up-266-luna-voices-on-the-solar-wind-pt1-nick-wood-dark-inspectre-episode-13-jason-kahn\/\nFinally, many thanks to the artist Kofi Allen, who has kindly supplied me ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=872\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":108,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1005","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005\/revisions\/2042"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}