{"id":15246,"date":"2023-11-14T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=15246"},"modified":"2023-11-13T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T07:00:33","slug":"villain-or-hero-you-decide-booklaunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/villain-or-hero-you-decide-booklaunch\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Villain or Hero?’ \u2013 You Decide! #BookLaunch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congratulations to the 13 amazing writers published in this imaginative new anthology \u2013 Villain or Hero?<\/a><\/em>, edited by me! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea for this anthology started at last year’s NBWG writers’ retreat, where a group of us were discussing how unfairly some characters had been represented and judged over time. The conversation became quite detailed, discussing famous villains such as Medusa, Circe, and various Shakespearian villains, to examining more contemporary criminal masterminds and their henchmen, then more broadly considering villain character types as a whole \u2013 such as witches in fairytales who might have just been intelligent women, jungle beasts that might have had an honourable purpose, and sea monsters who might have simply been defending their own homes. We asked ourselves, could one person\u2019s villain be another\u2019s hero? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our answers inspired this anthology \u2013 delving into the pasts, thoughts, and alternate worlds of character types we\u2019re supposed to hate! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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