{"id":1393,"date":"2010-07-08T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:58","slug":"check-out-mr-scalzis-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Mr. Scalzi&#8217;s &#8220;Big Idea&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, another great looking SFF novel with a.) a brown-skinned person on the cover, and b.) using a character from African folklore. <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/07\/08\/the-big-idea-karen-lord\/\" target= _blank>Karen Lord&#8217;s debut novel<\/a> is getting stars and great reviews, huzzah.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so excited about suddenly seeing brown-skinned people as magic-wielders in science fiction and fantasy, and am only waiting and hoping (and writing) to see more in YA and MG SFF &#8211; characters who aren&#8217;t cliched, and who don&#8217;t have to die for the other characters, in order to be included.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally &#8211; was Tu Publishing at the ALA Convention, anyone? I kept forgetting to check the little book, when it crossed my mind, and while I saw TONS of publishers (shout out to the nice people at Eerdman&#8217;s and Westside Books) I didn&#8217;t see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, another great looking SFF novel with a.) a brown-skinned person on the cover, and b.) using a character from African folklore. Karen Lord&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}