{"id":11762,"date":"2017-03-17T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T21:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=11762"},"modified":"2017-03-13T18:53:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T07:53:31","slug":"how-lee-battersby-signs-books-battersblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/how-lee-battersby-signs-books-battersblog\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lee Battersby Signs Books @battersblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11763\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lee-Battersby-Signs-Books-Zena-Shapter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lee-Battersby-Signs-Books-Zena-Shapter.jpg 2480w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lee-Battersby-Signs-Books-Zena-Shapter-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lee-Battersby-Signs-Books-Zena-Shapter-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lee-Battersby-Signs-Books-Zena-Shapter-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lee-Battersby-Signs-Books-Zena-Shapter-106x150.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>What kind of books does Lee Battersby write?<\/h3>\n<p>Speculative fiction for adults and children.<\/p>\n<h3>Tell me more!<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11765 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snake-kiss-author-shot-Lee-Battersby-small-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snake-kiss-author-shot-Lee-Battersby-small-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snake-kiss-author-shot-Lee-Battersby-small-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snake-kiss-author-shot-Lee-Battersby-small-199x150.jpg 199w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snake-kiss-author-shot-Lee-Battersby-small-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/snake-kiss-author-shot-Lee-Battersby-small.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lee Battersby is the author of the children&#8217;s novel &#8216;Magrit&#8217; (2016) as well as the humorous fantasy novels &#8216;The Corpse-Rat King&#8217; (2012) and &#8216;The Marching Dead&#8217; (2013) as well as over 80 short stories. A collection of his work, entitled \u201cThrough Soft Air\u201d from Prime Books. He\u2019s taught at Clarion South and developed and delivered a six-week \u201cWriting the SF Short Story\u201d course for the Australian Writers Marketplace. His work has been praised for its consistent attention to voice and narrative muscle, and has resulted in a number of awards including the Aurealis, Australia Shadows and Australia S F \u2018Ditmar\u2019 gongs. He lives in Rockingham, Western Australia, with his wife, writer Lyn Battersby. He is sadly obsessed with Lego, Nottingham Forest football club, dinosaurs and Daleks.<\/p>\n<h3>Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?<\/h3>\n<p>Lee lives online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leebattersby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">leebattersby.com<\/a> and copies entries over to his long-running blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/battersblog.blogspot.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Battersblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>What does his handwriting reveal?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"entry-content\">Compare his swirls and slants to the letters and revelations <a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/how-authors-sign-books-handwriting-personality\/\">here<\/a>, then scroll to check out your next author!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of books does Lee Battersby write? Speculative fiction for adults and children. Tell me more! Lee Battersby is the author of the children&#8217;s novel &#8216;Magrit&#8217; (2016) as well as the humorous fantasy novels &#8216;The Corpse-Rat King&#8217; (2012) and &#8216;The Marching Dead&#8217; (2013) as well as over 80 short\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/how-lee-battersby-signs-books-battersblog\/\">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":[1718,1726,371],"class_list":["post-11762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-authors","tag-handwriting","tag-how-authors-sign-books","tag-lee-battersby"],"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\/11762","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=11762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11766,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions\/11766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}