{"id":9848,"date":"2015-02-11T08:25:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=9848"},"modified":"2015-01-16T22:47:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T11:47:36","slug":"what-music-inspires-duncanlay-inspirationalmusic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/what-music-inspires-duncanlay-inspirationalmusic\/","title":{"rendered":"What Music Inspires @DuncanLay #InspirationalMusic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Who is Duncan Lay?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/launch6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9850\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/launch6-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"launch6\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/launch6-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/launch6.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Duncan Lay is the author of two best-selling Australian fantasy trilogies, the <em>Dragon Sword Histories <\/em>and the<em> Empire Of Bones<\/em>, both published by HarperCollins. His new series, <em>The Last Quarrel<\/em>, will be published by Momentum Books. Episode 1 will be out on January 22, 2015 in all eBook formats, with subsequent episodes released in February, March, April and May. The omnibus edition will be out in June. Episode 1 will be free. In his spare time, he is production editor of The Sunday Telegraph.<\/p>\n<h3>Where can I read more about this fabulous author?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duncanlay.com\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.duncanlay.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What music do they like?<\/h3>\n<p>I like to write to music and have written a few blog items about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/duncanlay.blogspot.com.au\/2010\/02\/music-and-writing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/duncanlay.blogspot.com.au\/2010\/02\/music-and-writing.html<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/duncanlay.blogspot.com.au\/2013\/10\/music-to-write-to.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/duncanlay.blogspot.com.au\/2013\/10\/music-to-write-to.html<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/duncanlay.blogspot.com.au\/2013\/06\/how-to-write-with-emotion.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/duncanlay.blogspot.com.au\/2013\/06\/how-to-write-with-emotion.html<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I listen to plenty of things but there is one that is striking a chord at the moment. It&#8217;s called <em>Demons<\/em>, by Imagine Dragons (which is probably the perfect band name for a fantasy author!). Here&#8217;s the link to it:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mWRsgZuwf_8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-AU&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Duncan Lay? Duncan Lay is the author of two best-selling Australian fantasy trilogies, the Dragon Sword Histories and the Empire Of Bones, both published by HarperCollins. His new series, The Last Quarrel, will be published by Momentum Books. Episode 1 will be out on January 22, 2015 in\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/what-music-inspires-duncanlay-inspirationalmusic\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[1083,189,1084],"class_list":["post-9848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-authors","tag-demons","tag-duncan-lay","tag-imagine-dragons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848","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=9848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10026,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions\/10026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}