{"id":211,"date":"2015-02-26T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:11:42","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Katherine
Katherine Padilla<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

When I was a little girl, I had lots of imaginary friends and liked to play imaginary games. My mother expressed her concern to my pediatrician, and he told her that there wasn\u2019t anything seriously<\/em> wrong with me\u2014that I\u2019d probably become a writer for TV when I grew up. I\u2019ve never been a writer for TV, but I created Novaun Novels <\/strong>in 2003, where I\u2019ve published the seven novels I\u2019ve written. These are not nice sweet novels, but weird ones. How are they weird, you ask? They are faith-based speculative fiction, two genres that mix just about as well as oil and water. When I was writing the Heirs of Novaun<\/em><\/a> quartet, I realized that I was doing something strange, but I couldn\u2019t stop myself. Now, I\u2019m just crazy enough to think I can pull it off!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere along the line, I realized that those spaced-out novels were, in many ways, fantastical daydreams about Zion<\/a>, or the city of God. When I started my book blog in 2015, I figured it was time to admit that to myself and to the world and share\u2014in a more straightforward way\u2014some of the ideas that keep my head in the clouds. Since then, I\u2019ve been blogging about the glimpses of Zion I get from the things I read, which\u2014surprise, surprise\u2014are mostly novels. From time to time, I do read and blog about books that aren\u2019t novels, and just to show you how odd I really am, I\u2019ll admit that I\u2019m as intrigued by Democracy in America<\/em><\/a> as I am by The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/a>, and I have three blog posts on each to prove it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you get me into a conversation about religious fiction<\/a>, I\u2019m probably not going to discuss books by well-known Latter-day Saint or evangelical Christian authors. I\u2019ll talk about The Idiot<\/em><\/a>, Daniel Deronda<\/em><\/a>, and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc<\/em><\/a>. If I think you might be particularly in tune with my brand of weirdness, I\u2019ll tell you why I think Wuthering Heights<\/em> is a religious novel. I haven\u2019t written that blog post yet, but I will!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a little girl, I had lots of imaginary friends and liked to play imaginary games. My mother expressed her concern to my pediatrician, and he told her that there wasn\u2019t anything seriously wrong with me\u2014that I\u2019d probably become a writer for TV when I grew up. I\u2019ve never been a writer for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4795,"href":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novels.zerosilver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}