{"id":540,"date":"2011-12-24T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=540"},"modified":"2012-01-26T18:39:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T08:39:47","slug":"paul-haines-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Paul Haines – author"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paul Haines<\/a>, a New Zealand author now based in Australia, is a speculative fiction writer who specialises in quite disturbing stories. When I first started to realise that I wasn’t happy with the narrow range of my speculative fiction reading<\/a>, I came across one of Paul’s stories in the Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast<\/a> and thought “This is just cool”.<\/p>\n

I’m not actually much of a horror reader, but Paul’s story was so well written and so different from what I was used to reading that it spurred me on to actively seek out antipodean writers and even start my own writing. I credit Paul and his writing for starting me on my current track, which has been very personally rewarding and has helped bring a bit more creative balance to my life.<\/p>\n

So it was with sadness I recently read that, due to an ongoing and worsening fight with cancer, Paul has been forced to give up his writing career<\/a>. His post gives a fantastic summary of the work he has done and a moving account of the work he has to leave behind.<\/p>\n

Starting with his latest collection The Last Days of Kali Yuga<\/em>,\u00a0I’m going to be actively seeking out the work of Paul’s that I haven’t had a chance to read, and I’d encourage anyone who loves good writing that does an excellent job of freaking you the hell out to do the same.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>Hi,\n

Welcome to Mark Webb’s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse – I’ve only recently started writing and there isn’t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0my biography<\/a>, see …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[20,17,31],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-author","tag-opinion","tag-paul-haines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}