{"id":8469,"date":"2013-09-01T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2013-09-03T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:53:36","slug":"the-wind-harp-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=8469","title":{"rendered":"The Wind Harp Sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipreckless.com\/blog\/?p=8344 \">I mentioned<\/a> I had made my first fiction pro-rate sale. The story was The Wind Harp, part of a far larger universe that I have been slowly bringing out in the world (<a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/archives\/009\/dry-rivers-by-athena-andreadis\/\">Dry Rivers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/archives\/013\/planetfall-by-athena-andreadis\/\">Planetfall<\/a> also belong to that universe). I read excerpts of Planetfall and The Wind Harp at this year&#8217;s Readercon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pivots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8473\" alt=\"Pivots\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pivots.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pivots.jpg 540w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pivots-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/magazine\/009-the-wind-harp\/\">The Wind Harp appeared<\/a> in today&#8217;s <em>Crossed Genres<\/em> Deadlines issue. Because it was my first pro sale, they also feature <a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/magazine\/009-spotlight\/\">an interview with me<\/a>. For those who read the story I have a small gift: it had a brief coda, excised to meet length requirements. If you leave a comment about the story, either at the magazine site or here and I like the comment, I will send you the longer version of the story, accompanied by <a href=\"http:\/\/iartiste.jimdo.com\/\">Heather D. Oliver&#8217;s<\/a> stunning full-color depictions of its main characters. The image here shows Heather&#8217;s preliminary sketches of the story&#8217;s two pivots: Ant\u00f3a T\u00e1sri of T\u00e9nli and Dor-Nys Teg-Rav of Gan-Tem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong> My friend Francesca Forrest read the story when I first wrote it and her comments on it made me very happy.  <a href=\"http:\/\/asakiyume.livejournal.com\/670995.html\">Here<\/a> is her incisive outline of The Wind Harp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, I mentioned I had made my first fiction pro-rate sale. The story was The Wind Harp, part of a far larger universe that I have been slowly bringing out in the world (Dry Rivers and Planetfall also belong to that universe). I read excerpts of Planetfall and The Wind Harp at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}