{"id":9314,"date":"2014-08-03T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2014-08-03T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T03:10:48","slug":"ive-been-snapshot-again-2014snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/ive-been-snapshot-again-2014snapshot\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve been &#8216;snapshot&#8217; again! #2014Snapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The 2014 Aussie Speculative Fiction Snapshot<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/snaphotlogo2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9315\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/snaphotlogo2014-300x287.png\" alt=\"snaphotlogo2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/snaphotlogo2014-300x287.png 300w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/snaphotlogo2014.png 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Australian speculative fiction snapshot series celebrates the breadth and depth of Australia\u2019s speculative fiction scene by interviewing prominent writers, editors and booksellers in the industry. I was first interviewed for the series in 2012 (<a title=\"David McDonald\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcdonaldspage.com\/2012\/06\/2012-aussie-snapshot-zena-shapter\/\" target=\"_blank\">by David McDonald<\/a>), and it\u2019s an honour to be included again. This time, the lovely Stephanie Gunn has asked me five cunning questions about winning short story competitions, social media in 2014, how recent changes in the publishing industry have influenced the way I work, and more! To see what I had to say, just pop over to Stephanie&#8217;s blog <a title=\"Stephanie Gunn\" href=\"http:\/\/stephaniegunn.com\/snapshot-2014-zena-shapter\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if you&#8217;ll agree with my replies?<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of other interviews to read too, thanks to this bunch of awesome bloggers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tsanasreads.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/2014snapshot\">Tsana Dolichva<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crankynick.livejournal.com\/tag\/2014snapshot\">Nick Evans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stephaniegunn.com\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">Stephanie Gunn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kathrynlinge.livejournal.com\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">Kathryn Linge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mayakitten.livejournal.com\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">Elanor Matton-Johnson <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcdonaldspage.com\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">David McDonald<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jasonnahrung.com\/2014\/07\/28\/snapshot-2014-angie-rega\/www.merwood.com.au\/worldsend\/tag\/2014snapshot\">Helen Merrick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/benpayne.wordpress.com\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">Ben Payne<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/randomalex.net\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">Alex Pierce<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tansyrr.com\/tansywp\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">Tansy Rayner Roberts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/helenstubbs.wordpress.com\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">Helen Stubbs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ventureadlaxre.wordpress.com\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">Katharine Stubbs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fablecroft.com.au\/tag\/2014snapshot\/\">Tehani Wessely<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bookonaut.blogspot.com.au\/search\/label\/2014snapshot\">Sean Wright<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The interviews are all being blogged from 28 July to 10 August, then archived at<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\">SF Signal<\/a>.<\/em> So hop around the blogs if you like and enjoy the series!<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 Aussie Speculative Fiction Snapshot The Australian speculative fiction snapshot series celebrates the breadth and depth of Australia\u2019s speculative fiction scene by interviewing prominent writers, editors and booksellers in the industry. I was first interviewed for the series in 2012 (by David McDonald), and it\u2019s an honour to be\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/ive-been-snapshot-again-2014snapshot\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[924,923,32,928,156,927,266,267,340,342,925,558,926,624,627,672],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australian-authors","category-personal-news","tag-2014-aussie-speculative-fiction-snapshot","tag-2014snapshot","tag-alex-pierce","tag-ben-payne","tag-david-mcdonald","tag-elanor-matton-johnson","tag-helen-merrick","tag-helen-stubbs","tag-katharine-stubbs","tag-kathryn-linge","tag-nick-evans","tag-sean-wright","tag-stephanie-gunn","tag-tansy-rayner-roberts","tag-tehani-wessely","tag-tsana-dolichva"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/snaphotlogo2014.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9332,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions\/9332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}