{"id":2146,"date":"2022-07-04T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2022-07-04T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T00:05:13","slug":"the-power-of-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2022\/07\/04\/the-power-of-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night (your Sunday night) I was putting together some material for my patrons. It includes an interview I did years ago with Carrie Vaughn, Seanan McGuire and Daniel Abraham. I was looking into what made the suddenly-very-trendy preternatural romance and adventure novels and going straight to three excellent writers on the topic seemed like a good idea. <\/span><\/p>\n

It still does. I\u2019m considering picking up my old habit of interviewing writers in groups, to find out what they think and who they are. If you think that\u2019s a good idea, please let me know. In the interim, it may be years since the first novels of these three writers came out, but I made such an excellent choice of interview subject: they\u2019re still all perfect for this difficult year. Good writing trumps tough times, I find.<\/span><\/p>\n

These days using \u2018trumps\u2019 like that makes us think of politicians who lead people astray and make the hard, harder, but I want us to return to the pre-Donald use of the word. It comes from playing card games. Card games, like good light fiction, help when the emotions are really not up to heavy lifting. Still, I\u2019d rather read Carrie or Seanan than play cards this month. Cards may be fun, but COVID is still with us and far too many of my friends are down with it. I want to step into a delightfully frothy werewolf tale or dream of sarcasm in fairyland. <\/span><\/p>\n

My present to you for the Fourth of July then, is a reminder of the power of books to keep us sane when life goes awry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night (your Sunday night) I was putting together some material for my patrons. It includes an interview I did years ago with Carrie Vaughn, Seanan McGuire and Daniel Abraham. I was looking into what made the suddenly-very-trendy preternatural romance and adventure novels and going straight to three excellent writers on the topic seemed like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,166,8,6],"tags":[539,540,538],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-covid-life","category-fantasy","category-fiction","tag-carrie-vaughn","tag-daniel-abraham","tag-seanan-mcguire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}