{"id":1413,"date":"2019-05-17T00:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2019-05-17T00:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:12:50","slug":"on-the-oddcast-fantasy-author-anna-kashina-reveals-the-facts-about-competitive-ballroom-dancing-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"On the Oddcast, fantasy author Anna Kashina reveals the facts&#8230;about competitive ballroom dancing &#038; writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theliarscluboddcast.projectentertainment.libsynpro.com\/the-liars-club-oddcast-118-anna-kashina-award-winning-fantasy-author\">A Liars Club Oddcast Interview<\/a><\/strong> with Award-winning fantasy author Anna Kashina. She discusses her \u201cMajat Code\u201d novels, her latest book, SHADOWBLADE, and reveals how being a competitive ballroom dancer and a scientist can help with your writing.<\/p>\n<p>A Prism Award-winner and Locus Award nominee, she&#8217;s a student of world mythology, history, martial arts, an folklore.\u00a0She writes historical adventure fantasy that features exotic settings, martial arts, assassins, and strong elements of romance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1414 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OddcastLogo-Kashina.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Kashina\" width=\"568\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OddcastLogo-Kashina.jpg 568w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OddcastLogo-Kashina-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OddcastLogo-Kashina-250x127.jpg 250w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OddcastLogo-Kashina-150x76.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Liars Club Oddcast Interview with Award-winning fantasy author Anna Kashina. She discusses her \u201cMajat Code\u201d novels, her latest book, SHADOWBLADE, and reveals how being a competitive ballroom dancer and a scientist can help with your writing. A Prism Award-winner and Locus Award nominee, she&#8217;s a student of world mythology,\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=1413\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,2,455,127,6,7,477],"tags":[480,226,483,479,482,478,214,481],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fantasy-fiction","category-novelist","category-on-writing","category-publishing","category-words","category-worldbuilding","tag-anna-kashina","tag-fantasy-fiction","tag-ippy-award","tag-locus-award","tag-majat-code","tag-prism-award","tag-romance","tag-shadowblade"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcmYKr-mN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}