{"id":201,"date":"2024-03-20T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/munchkinstein.co.uk\/?p=201"},"modified":"2024-05-03T14:29:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:29:51","slug":"ogres-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/ogres-in-the-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogres in the Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All hail the wonderful Canadians and especially those involved with On Spec, the Alberta based spec fic magazine for they have published a story of mine! Behold the glorious cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Cover127_edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Cover127_edited.jpeg 525w, https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Cover127_edited-197x300.jpeg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of how to acquire this, should you wish to, can be found on their site at: <a href=\"https:\/\/onspec.ca\/2024\/03\/20\/on-spec-127-is-released-into-the-wild\/\">https:\/\/onspec.ca\/2024\/03\/20\/on-spec-127-is-released-into-the-wild\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My tale is one of a wee, wrinkly old man contemplating his mortality while hiking up into the wilds. Which as I&#8217;m just back from a week on Arran for my fiftieth birthday where I did a bit of hill walking, is wildly well timed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story itself is a fantasy tale of gnomes and ogres that I wrote once as part of a wider world building exercise for a potential novel. The novel got as far as getting critted but by then I&#8217;d fallen out of love with it. Possibly because I am too lazy for such hard work. But I&#8217;m very glad that this story survived to get published.  It just goes to show that all work can lead to something, even if you think it is just a preparatory exercise for something else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t throw stuff away!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time for a celebratory cup of tea and maybe a wee gawp at nature to see if I can catch something amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cheeky wee update to this to note that On Spec appears to be quite popular with reviewers. Here are three different reviews that go through each story and don&#8217;t make me ashamed to point at them. Which is nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tangentonline.com\/print-quarterly\/on-spec-127-spring-2024\/\">Tangent Online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfcrowsnest.info\/on-spec-magazine-127-vol-34-no-1-magazine-review\/\">SF Crowsnest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazingstories.com\/2024\/04\/clubhouse-review-on-spec-magazine-127\/\">Amazing Stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hail the wonderful Canadians and especially those involved with On Spec, the Alberta based spec fic magazine for they have published a story of mine! Behold the glorious cover. Details of how to acquire this, should you wish to, can be found on their site at: https:\/\/onspec.ca\/2024\/03\/20\/on-spec-127-is-released-into-the-wild\/ My tale is one of a wee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,2,3,7,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-hurrah","category-huzzah","category-publication","category-published","category-sale","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}