{"id":4306,"date":"2017-03-30T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2017-03-30T08:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:28:15","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-lorena-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Lorena Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/03\/Lorena Alvarez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/03\/Lorena Alvarezsmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge photo)<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">The idea of <\/em>Nightlights<em> came from a very early memory. When I was a kid, I used to stay awake at night, and I could see little color dots in the dark, like glitter. I used to imagine that I could catch those dots and release them, while drawing any shape I wanted. \u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk to author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.behance.net\/LorenaAlvarez\">Lorena Alvarez<\/a><\/strong> about her new graphic novel, <em>Nightlights<\/em> (Nobrow, March 2017). <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/shedding-light-childhood-memories\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and next week here at 7-Imp I&#8217;ll have some more spreads from the book. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Lorena Alvarez used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click to enlarge photo) &nbsp; &#8220;The idea of Nightlights came from a very early memory. When I was a kid, I used to stay awake at night, and I could see little color dots in the dark, like glitter. I used to imagine that I could catch those dots and release them, while drawing any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","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=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}