{"id":903,"date":"2013-04-16T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=903"},"modified":"2013-04-16T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:56:04","slug":"nick-wood-marapr-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood – Mar\/Apr 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cape Town and the Buzzing Genre Scene:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I<\/b>‘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’s<\/strong> ‘When The Sea is Rising Red,’<\/em>\u00a0a sharp fantasy book mixing up some familiar tropes (e.g. Vampires, but as seen from a differing perspective), with some wonderful unique world-building and drama. Cat is Cape Town resident and tor.com<\/a><\/span> have a great overview of her book here: http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2012\/02\/significant-choices-when-the-sea-is-rising-red-by-cat-hellisen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0I’ve unfortunately just missed the launch of Lauren Beukes<\/strong>‘ ‘The Shining Girls<\/em>‘ at Cape Town’s The Book Lounge (groan), but will have to be content with securing and reporting back on a UK copy; I’m very much looking forward to this.\u00a0Of course, the book has been launched all over, with different cover variants internationally, all beautiful – but I am particularly partial to the South African version. https:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2013\/03\/the-book-trailer-for-the-shining-girls-by-lauren-beukes-is-downright-spooky\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Nerine Dorman<\/strong> has written several excellent horror-suspense books, some with Capetonian settings, such as ‘Khepera Rising<\/em>‘. She has also supported a burgeoning local horror scene with an annual anthology ‘Bloody Parchments<\/em>‘: http:\/\/bloodyparchment.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 The anthology is attached to a local horror festival http:\/\/www.horrorfest.info\/<\/a><\/span> Nerine<\/strong> also generously supports local writing ventures, such as blogging interviews with contributors to the Something Wicked Anthology (Vol.2), <\/em>embedded variously on her blog ‘This is My World<\/em>‘ http:\/\/nerinedorman.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Something Wicked’s<\/em> magazine editor Joe Vaz<\/strong> is also Cape Town resident: http:\/\/www.somethingwicked.co.za\/<\/a><\/span> The Second Volume of Something Wicked launches soon, containing many fine\u00a0 stories (as well as, ahem, my own ‘Of Hearts and Monkeys’<\/em>.) http:\/\/www.somethingwicked.co.za\/magazines\/something-wicked-anthology-vol-two\/<\/a>
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The Something Wicked Volume 2<\/em> Anthology can be pre-ordered here: http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/something-wicked-volume-two-pre-order<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrew Salomon<\/strong> (also Capetonian I believe) has (to date) reached the Quarter Finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, with ‘Tokoloshe Song<\/em>‘\u00a0 http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tokoloshe-Song-ABNA-Entry-ebook\/dp\/B00B9N38RY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, while we wait for Charlie Human’s<\/strong> two new books:\u00a0http:\/\/www.britishfantasysociety.co.uk\/news\/two-book-deal-for-new-zeno-agency-client-charlie-human\/<\/a><\/span> it is worth pointing out Sarah Lotz<\/strong> is a Capetonian too:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/worldsf.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/04\/south-african-writer-sarah-lotz-sells-new-novel-to-hodder\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, I admit I’m biased, but you must admit that’s an awful lot of good genre fiction, coming from such a beautiful city?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cape Town and the Buzzing Genre Scene: I‘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’s ‘When The Sea is Rising Red,’\u00a0a sharp fantasy book mixing up some familiar tropes (e.g. Vampires, but as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013blogs","category-blog","category-misc","category-pub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}