{"id":391,"date":"2012-03-22T01:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=391"},"modified":"2012-03-22T01:48:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:48:35","slug":"nick-wood-octobernovember-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood &#8211; October\/November 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table id=\"tablepress-12\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-12\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was pleased this month that <i>Thirstlands<\/i> won a <i>British Science Fiction Association Orbiter<\/i> writing competition, judged by <b>Ian Watson<\/b>, whose science fiction work I&#39;ve read since the nineteen seventies. One of the results of winning this competition is publication in an anthology called <i>Subterfuge<\/i>, edited by <b>Ian Whates<\/b>. The anthology should be available from <b> Amazon<\/b> as well as <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newconpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NewCon Press<\/a><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newconpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newconpress.com\/<\/a>.<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a word of explanation, <i>Orbiters<\/i> are online writing critique groups run by the <i>British Science Fiction Association<\/i> &#45; I feel both lucky and privileged to have won this competition and to end up signing copies of <i>Subterfuge<\/i> at its launch at NewCon4 in Northampton &#45; (pictured) &#45; so much thanks to <b>Ian Whates<\/b> for running this. Roll on <b>NewCon5<\/b>.<\/p><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><p class=\"pc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/Subterfugesigning_200_183.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"183\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nick signing copies of &quot;Subterfuge&quot; which features his story &quot;Thirstlands&quot;\" \/><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-12 from cache -->\n<p class=\"pl\">Nick Wood &#45; Oct\/Nov 2008. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?attachment_id=105\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/vlinec.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"vlinec\" width=\"140\" height=\"10\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased this month that <i>Thirstlands<\/i> won a <i>British Science Fiction Association Orbiter<\/i> writing competition, judged by <b>Ian Watson<\/b>, whose science fiction work I&#39;ve read since the nineteen seventies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008blogs","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}