{"id":3809,"date":"2015-08-06T07:49:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T13:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2015-08-06T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T17:22:17","slug":"catching-up-with-liz-garton-scanlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3809","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up with Liz Garton Scanlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/08\/Liz-Garton-Scanlonuse.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">It became clear to me that [my character&#8217;s] family had religious traditions and that she was going to be reckoning with the comfort and the challenges of those traditions as part of her coming-of-age. Then, as Paul fleshed out as a science kid, I realized that faith and science were going to get to play off of each other, which I thought was awesome (and daunting). I worried that readers on \u2018either side\u2019 would be offended, but I really believe that discussions around religion and science are way too polarized, so it felt both true and worth it to look at them in a true and blurrier way.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lizgartonscanlon.com\/\">Liz Garton Scanlon<\/a><\/strong> about her first middle-grade novel, <em>The Great Good Summer<\/em> (Beach Lane Books), released this May.  <\/p>\n<p>We also talk about her forthcoming picture book, <em>In the Canyon<\/em> (also Beach Lane Books), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ashleywolff.com\/\">Ashley Wolff<\/a><\/strong> and coming to shelves this month. <\/p>\n<p>That conversation is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/keeping-faith-liz-garton-scanlon\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll have some art and early sketches from <em>In the Canyon<\/em>, thanks to Ashley. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Liz used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It became clear to me that [my character&#8217;s] family had religious traditions and that she was going to be reckoning with the comfort and the challenges of those traditions as part of her coming-of-age. Then, as Paul fleshed out as a science kid, I realized that faith and science were going to get to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}