{"id":440,"date":"2012-03-22T04:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=440"},"modified":"2012-03-22T04:14:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:14:52","slug":"nick-wood-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood &#8211; October 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few items of note this month &#45; firstly, for an interesting take on <i>World SF<\/i> have a look at SF Signal&#39;s online interview with <b>Lavie Tidhar<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/interview-lavie-tidhar\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/interview-lavie-tidhar\/<\/a>.  Again, I would recommend you support <i>Apex&#39;s<\/i> venture to showcase SF writing from across the globe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apexbookcompany.com\/cart.php?m=product_detail&#038;p=86\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.apexbookcompany.com\/cart.php?m=product_detail&#038;p=86<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secondly, this month&#39;s &#40;October&#41; issue of <i>The Psychologist<\/i> includes a focus on fiction, with a number of articles being publicly available should you be interested: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepsychologist.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thepsychologist.org.uk<\/a>. Thus there is an analytic take on <b>Maurice Sendak&#39;s<\/b> <i>Where the Wild Things Are<\/i>; a look at the psychology of oral storytelling and an exploration of using prose to support the writing of a doctoral dissertation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, I&#39;m pleased to report that <i>Locus Magazine<\/i> will probably be publishing an article of mine in their forthcoming November issue. This is essentially a socio&#45;historical overview of South African speculative fiction down the ages. <i>Locus<\/i> have agreed that I can make this article available online once their subscribers have had a month to look at it. I will thus make this piece available online from early December. As a teaser, just to say South African speculative fiction in its broadest sense appears to be a growing genre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nick Wood &#45; October 2009<\/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>A few items of note this month &#45; firstly, for an interesting take on World SF have a look at SF Signal&#39;s online interview with Lavie Tidhar: http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/interview-lavie-tidhar\/. Again, I would recommend you support Apex&#39;s venture to showcase SF writing from across the globe: http:\/\/www.apexbookcompany.com\/cart.php?m=product_detail&#038;p=86. Secondly, this month&#39;s &#40;October&#41; issue of The Psychologist includes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009blogs","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}