{"id":6066,"date":"2020-07-02T05:16:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2020-07-02T05:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:16:59","slug":"episode-466-ten-minutes-with-ursula-vernon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2020\/07\/02\/episode-466-ten-minutes-with-ursula-vernon\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 466: Ten Minutes with Ursula Vernon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ten minutes with&#8230;<\/strong> is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they&#8217;re reading right now and what&#8217;s getting them through these difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo and Nebula Winning author and artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redwombatstudio.com\/\">Ursula Vernon<\/a>, along with her alter ego for adult readers T. Kingfisher, chats with Gary about the comfort of reading historical romances and horror fiction that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem too close to home, the classic fantasy of Robin McKinley and Terri Windling, and the sometimes arbitrary distinctions between adult and kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 literature, especially given the occasional disconnect between who buys the latter and who reads it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Episode 466: Ten Minutes with Ursula Vernon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/my6xy-e199a0?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1&amp;skin=1&amp;btn-skin=107&amp;auto=0&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;pbad=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books mentioned include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide to Defensive Baking<\/em> by T. Kingfisher (forthcoming)<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Twisted-Ones\/T-Kingfisher\/9781534429567\">The Twisted Ones<\/a><\/em> by T. Kingfisher<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Hollow-Places\/T-Kingfisher\/9781534451124\"><em>The Hollow Places<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by T. Kingfisher<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42747739-swordheart\">Swordheart<\/a><\/em> by Ursula Vernon<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/series\/49119-damar\">The Damar Series<\/a><\/em> by Robin McKinley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8087.Deerskin\"><em>Deerskin<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by Robin McKinley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/463024.The_Wood_Wife\"><em>The Wood Wife<\/em><\/a> by Terri Windling<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1325218.Scary_Stories_to_Tell_in_the_Dark\"><em>Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark<\/em><\/a> by Alvin Schwartz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42747739-swordheart\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/jonathanstrahan.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/fy5f56\/swordheart.jpg\" alt=\"swordheart.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Hollow-Places\/T-Kingfisher\/9781534451124\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/jonathanstrahan.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/rjlkih\/thehollowplaces.jpg\" alt=\"thehollowplaces.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Twisted-Ones\/T-Kingfisher\/9781534429567\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/jonathanstrahan.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/wmnpvw\/thetwistedones.jpg\" alt=\"thetwistedones.jpg\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten minutes with&#8230; is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they&#8217;re reading right now and what&#8217;s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo and Nebula Winning author and artist Ursula Vernon, along with her alter ego for adult readers T. Kingfisher, chats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2020\/07\/02\/episode-466-ten-minutes-with-ursula-vernon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 466: Ten Minutes with Ursula Vernon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","category-ten-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6068,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}