{"id":4295,"date":"2012-06-06T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T23:42:13","slug":"ive-been-snapshotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/ive-been-snapshotted\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been snapshotted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The 2012 Aussie Speculative Fiction Snapshot<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_4298\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SnapshotLogo2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4298\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4298\" title=\"SnapshotLogo2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SnapshotLogo2012-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australian SpecFic in Focus!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wow \u2013 how chuffed am I? I&#8217;ve just been included in the 2012 Australian speculative fiction snapshot, a series of interviews designed to celebrate the breadth and depth of Australia&#8217;s speculative fiction scene.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These last few months, bloggers <a title=\"Alisa Krasnostein\" href=\"http:\/\/champagneandsocks.com\/tag\/2012snapshot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alisa Krasnostein<\/a>, <a title=\"Kathryn Linge\" href=\"http:\/\/kathrynlinge.livejournal.com\/tag\/2012snapshot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Linge<\/a>, <a title=\"David McDonald\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcdonaldspage.com\/2012\/06\/2012-aussie-snapshot-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\">David McDonald<\/a>, <a title=\"Helen Merrick\" href=\"http:\/\/helenm.posterous.com\/tag\/2012snapshot\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Merrick<\/a>, <a title=\"Ian Mond\" href=\"http:\/\/mondyboy.com\/?tag=2012snapshot\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Mond<\/a>, <a title=\"Jason Nahrung\" href=\"http:\/\/jasonnahrung.com\/tag\/2012snapshot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Nahrung<\/a>, <a title=\"Alex Pierce\" href=\"http:\/\/randomalex.net\/tag\/2012snapshot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Pierce<\/a>, <a title=\"Tansy Rayner Roberts\" href=\"http:\/\/tansyrr.com\/tansywp\/tag\/2012snapshot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tansy Rayner Roberts<\/a>, <a title=\"Tehani Wessely\" href=\"http:\/\/thebooknut.wordpress.com\/tag\/2012snapshot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tehani Wessely<\/a> and <a title=\"Sean Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/bookonaut.blogspot.com.au\/search\/label\/2012Snapshot\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Wright<\/a> have been working like madmen organising all the interviews \u2013 you should see who else has been interviewed as this dedicated team of bloggers attempt to show the world exactly what speculative fiction means to Australia!<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m honoured to be included in their vision.<\/p>\n<p>To read my interview, conducted by the tenacious David McDonald, just click <a title=\"Ebon Shores\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcdonaldspage.com\/2012\/06\/2012-aussie-snapshot-zena-shapter\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve featured on David&#8217;s blog as, last month, I was on Ebon Shores&#8217; <em>Wednesday Writers<\/em> talking about the importance of enjoying your writing journey, as you travel it. If you have trouble celebrating your writing achievements as you achieve them, then read that post <a title=\"Ebon Shores\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcdonaldspage.com\/2012\/05\/wednesday-writers-zena-shapter\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>! Me? I&#8217;m going to try celebrating my inclusion in the 2012 Aussie snapshot right now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>squeee!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of the Aussie snapshot, you can also read two wonderful memorial snapshots of\u00a0<a title=\"Paul Haines\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p1D3h2-zI\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Haines<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"Sara Douglass\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/poBw7-Hm\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Douglass<\/a>, written in celebration of their contribution to the Australian speculative fiction community. And to find out who else is who in Australia in 2012 \u2013 simply follow the links at the end of <a title=\"Ebon Shores\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcdonaldspage.com\/2012\/06\/2012-aussie-snapshot-zena-shapter\/\" target=\"_blank\">my interview<\/a>! Started by <a title=\"Ben Peek\" href=\"http:\/\/benpeek.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Peek<\/a> in 2005 (thanks Ben!), the Aussie snapshot has only taken place three times over the past eight years. So your chance to read all about speculative fiction in Australia&#8230; is now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Aussie Speculative Fiction Snapshot Wow \u2013 how chuffed am I? I&#8217;ve just been included in the 2012 Australian speculative fiction snapshot, a series of interviews designed to celebrate the breadth and depth of Australia&#8217;s speculative fiction scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/ive-been-snapshotted\/\">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":false,"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":[14,15,32,34,65,82,156,191,266,276,306,342,476,551,558,624,627,692],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-authors","category-personal-news","tag-2012-aussie-snapshot","tag-2012-australian-speculative-fiction-snapshot","tag-alex-pierce","tag-alisa-krasnostein","tag-australian-specfic-in-focus","tag-ben-peek","tag-david-mcdonald","tag-ebon-shores","tag-helen-merrick","tag-ian-mond","tag-jason-nahrung","tag-kathryn-linge","tag-paul-haines","tag-sara-douglass","tag-sean-wright","tag-tansy-rayner-roberts","tag-tehani-wessely","tag-wednesday-writers"],"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\/4295","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=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}