{"id":9,"date":"2010-03-11T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:10:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:10:01","slug":"properly-believable-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Properly believable characters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/marcusgipps.livejournal.com\/67405.html\"><strong>this latest review<\/strong><\/a> of <strong>Crawlers<\/strong>, by Marcus Gipps. Disclosure time: Marcus is an old friend from my bookselling days &#8211; but as you&#8217;ll see, that&#8217;s no guarantee he&#8217;ll pull his punches when it comes to reviewing me!<\/p>\n<p>For me, creating characters is the hardest thing about writing: monsters and action are a joy to write, but characterisation makes blood well out of my eyeballs. So I&#8217;m especially thrilled by what Marcus said about the characters in <strong>Crawlers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the serialization this week of the opening scene of the book on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\/2010\/03\/crawlers-sneak-peek-part-1\/\">Trapped By Monsters<\/a><\/strong> and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1371\">Tim News Page<\/a><\/strong> seems to be going great guns, particularly on my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/samenthoven\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong>. <strong>SNEE HEE HEE! <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this latest review of Crawlers, by Marcus Gipps. Disclosure time: Marcus is an old friend from my bookselling days &#8211; but as you&#8217;ll see, that&#8217;s no guarantee he&#8217;ll pull his punches when it comes to reviewing me! For me, creating characters is the hardest thing about writing: monsters and action are a joy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}