{"id":11235,"date":"2016-08-14T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2016-08-14T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:22:51","slug":"ive-been-snapshot-scifi-fantasy-books-austsfsnapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/ive-been-snapshot-scifi-fantasy-books-austsfsnapshot\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Been Snapshot! #scifi #fantasy #books @AustSFSnapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11236 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-300x288.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-300x288.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-768x736.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-1024x982.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-156x150.jpeg 156w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-150x144.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.jpeg 1145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/austsfsnapshot.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/08\/2012-snapshot-archive-zena-shapter\/\">David McDonald<\/a>), then in 2014 (by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/austsfsnapshot.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/26\/2014-snapshot-archive-zena-shapter\/\">Stephanie Gunn<\/a>) and it\u2019s an honour to be included again. This time, the lovely Greg Chapman\u00a0has asked me five cunning questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What are you working on right now? Anything exciting?<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ve got a whole bunch of novels listed as \u201cavailable soon\u201d on your website. What can you tell me about them? When will they be made flesh? Did you write them all back-to-back?<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0seem to dabble within the many sub-genres of speculative fiction, but which area inspires you the most and why?<\/li>\n<li>What Australian work have you loved recently?<\/li>\n<li>Which author (living or dead) would you most like to sit next to on a long plane trip? Why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To see what I had to say, just pop over to the official snapshot\u00a0blog <a href=\"https:\/\/austsfsnapshot.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/13\/2016-snapshot-zena-shapter\/\">here<\/a>. Then browse around the site to\u00a0discover more about speculative fiction in Australia today! Follow @AustSFsnapshot on Twitter or &#8216;Australian Spec Fic Snapshot&#8217; on Facebook for updates \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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), then in 2014 (by\u00a0Stephanie Gunn) and it\u2019s an honour to be included\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/ive-been-snapshot-scifi-fantasy-books-austsfsnapshot\/\">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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1578,1577,156,1579,926],"class_list":["post-11235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-authors","category-personal-news","tag-2016-australian-speculative-fiction-snapshot","tag-austsfsnapshot","tag-david-mcdonald","tag-greg-chapman","tag-stephanie-gunn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11237,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}