{"id":2529,"date":"2014-08-10T17:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T07:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2016-04-17T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T13:07:08","slug":"2014-aussie-spec-fic-snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":"2014 Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p id=\"top\" \/>The Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot (the Snapshot) is something that has happened every couple of years over the last 10 years or so. Basically, a group of bloggers get together and try to interview as many people as they can in the Australian speculative fiction field in a fortnight. Each interviewee is asked 5 questions, mostly tailored to them but with a couple of common elements.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2014 Snapshot, I was fortunate\u00a0to be interviewer Jason Nahrung&#8217;s final interview (<strong>edit 23\/8\/2014:<\/strong> actually he snuck one extra in after me &#8211; but I was his final interview at the time I wrote the original post!) \u00a0in what must have been an absolute mad scramble. In fact, pop over to Jason&#8217;s blog and read a<a title=\"2014 Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot\" href=\"http:\/\/jasonnahrung.com\/2014\/07\/27\/snapshot-2014-australias-speculative-fiction-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\"> much better description of the Snapshot process<\/a>\u00a0. Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll wait.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back. Now I&#8217;m going to direct you back over to Jason&#8217;s blog to read <a title=\"Jason Nahrung interviews Mark Webb\" href=\"http:\/\/jasonnahrung.com\/2014\/08\/10\/snapshot-2014-mark-webb\/\" target=\"_blank\">his interview with me<\/a>. I know &#8211; making you go all the way over there and back, just to make you go all the way over there again. I am a cruel and fickle friend, make no mistake.<\/p>\n<p>While answering the fiendish questions Jason posed, I realised this is the first time I&#8217;ve been interviewed because of my involvement in the field. It was an odd sensation.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that links to the collected Snapshot interviews will be archived at the <a title=\"SF Signal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\" target=\"_blank\">SF Signal<\/a> website. I&#8217;ll provide a more precise link once it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit 19\/8\/2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The full list of all 2014 Snapshot interviews is now up on the SF Signal website <a title=\"Snapshot summary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2014\/08\/aussie-spec-fic-snapshot-2014-the-interview-index\/\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"top\"><\/p>Hi,\n<p>Welcome to Mark Webb&#8217;s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse &#8211; I&#8217;ve only recently started writing and there isn&#8217;t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0<a title=\"All About Mark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=11\">my biography<\/a>, see &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[147,81,21,15],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2014-snapshot","tag-jason-nahrung","tag-news-2","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}