Jill Marshall:<\/strong> Thanks, Tellest! It\u2019s been a labour of love, that\u2019s for sure \u2013 not always perfect, maybe, but always from the heart.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> One of the first things that I always like to learn from my interview subjects early on is how they started down the path of the storyteller.\u00a0 We draw inspirations from a lot of different places, and they can be just as exciting an origin story as the ones we create for our characters.\u00a0 What steered you in that direction?\u00a0 Did you have any relatives or members of the community that inspired you, or did you maybe have a favorite author?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong> \u00a0Like many writers, I started on the path to being an author as a reader. I read voraciously from a very early age, supported by a constant supply of books from the local library via my mother! I was the classic kid reading into the small hours with a torch under the blankets, or daydreaming over my windowsill during daylight, and yes, that included at school. The people who inspired me were authors. I read them all, over and over, with particular favourites being character-based series \u2013 Anne of Green Gables, the Narnia stories, even some books that were intended for my brother about Roddy the Road Maker! I was also deeply fascinated by a series about a magical cat called Carbonel. It\u2019s very strange to look back now and see how I\u2019ve recreated many of those set-ups in my own way.<\/p>\n As for whether there were relatives or community members in this field \u2013 there were most definitely some who should have been! I grew up in a working class suburb of Manchester, UK, where people got a job, got married or both. Even though I wrote my first (short) book at 13, becoming an author was a distant and unlikely dream in my neighbourhood.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> You mentioned that you\u2019ve recreated a lot of the set-ups of your favorite stories, and in a way, that\u2019s what makes your most popular tales so accessible and approachable.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got characters that take inspiration from James Bond, Frankenstein, ancient Egyptian deities.\u00a0 Who was your favorite character to write, and why?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ooo, now that\u2019s like asking who\u2019s your favourite child (and the answer to that is definitely my daughter). If pushed, though, I\u2019d say that my favourite to write (although they\u2019re all equally loved!) would be legendary Catgirl, Matilda Peppercorn, probably because she has all the courage and crazy wildness that I never dared to have myself! She owns her story and basically writes it herself, so some of the things she\u2019ll say and do surprise even me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> That brings up another great writing question that I always like to know the answer to.\u00a0 When you\u2019re writing your stories, do you find yourself telling the story, or more discovering it?\u00a0 In a lot of ways, I feel like it\u2019s the difference between speaking something into existence versus being out in the desert, unearthing a fossil with a toothbrush.<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, a big writerly question \u2013 and I\u2019d have to say that it\u2019s changed over the years. I ran on pure inspiration for my first couple of books, but when they came back with a fair bit of editing to do, I changed tack! I then began planning a lot more, to the extent that I\u2019d always know the full plot-line and where each chapter was going within that overall structure. I\u2019ve got notebook after notebook filled with scribbled outlines and chapter synopses (I do all my planning with pen and paper, but then from the moment I start writing, it\u2019s on a computer). I\u2019ve always allowed it to change direction if the characters demand it, but I\u2019d generally follow that plan through to the end.<\/p>\n This method sustained me for many books, but when I started writing the first S*W*A*G*G title, Spook, I really sat back and allowed the stories to breathe themselves into life. I trusted both the technical process of structured writing, and the unconscious guidance that comes from who knows where, to take me on a journey with my S*W*A*G*G team, with many a surprise along the way. With so many synchronicities that I couldn\u2019t begin to explain, I genuinely felt I was co-writing these stories with some great unknown.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> You\u2019ve managed to stitch together this beautiful tapestry of stories that connect a handful of different characters.\u00a0\u00a0 Once upon a time, they played well enough on their own, but now they\u2019ve banded together and going on cooperative adventures.\u00a0 Was that always the plan, or did that end up surprising you as much as it did your readers?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 It really did surprise me as much as my readers, and has continued to throw in little Easter eggs and shock revelations to the very end, almost the last few words.<\/p>\n In fact, when I wrote the first Jane Blonde book, quite a few years ago, I thought I was writing a one-off adventure. Then my publishers at the time (Macmillan Children\u2019s Books in UK) asked for a second spygirl mission, and then another, until it became a seven-book series \u2013 or rather, a 007-book series. Meanwhile I\u2019d started writing about Jack Bootle-Cadogan, in a trio of Egyptology-steeped adventures about a young lord who becomes Anubis because of a family curse. Jane Blonde finished, and Macmillan asked for a second girl series, and so Matilda Peppercorn, Catgirl and legend, was born. Around the same time, I began to write about Stein and his new best friend, Frank.<\/p>\n They were all distinct adventures, although I did notice that the characters would pop up in each other\u2019s stories. There\u2019s a tiny hint of Jack B-C showing up in an Egyptian location in the third Matilda Peppercorn title, for instance. Then one day I went to the movies (I love films of all kinds!) and saw a cardboard cutout of a team of superheroes known as The Avengers. For a very long time, I stood in front of that cutout, staring and holding up the queue from the escalator, and it occurred to me that my own slightly smaller superheroes could come together in the same way. I\u2019d always wanted to revisit Jane Blonde, and when the stories for S*W*A*G*G started to appear in the back of my brain, I suddenly knew why. It was a bit like the move to high school for my characters \u2013 the dynamics and electricity were all more super-charged, and their skills became irrevocably linked with their personalities. Somehow, they belonged together, and it felt like the path had been flowing in that direction for a very long time. It just took a pandemic to make me pull it all together!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> I love it.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to make the connection myself there, because it almost felt like you were heading in that direction on your own anyway, but you\u2019re right, there are similarities that pop out at you.\u00a0 How excited were your fans to see those connections take shape?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Most of my uber-fans are Jane Blonde readers, who were sad that the JB series had come to an end in the first place \u2013 so to see that she (and her much-loved godmother, G-Mamma) were back in action made them very happy indeed! To other readers, well, it just made sense. My books are and always have been very filmic \u2013 I love a good fight scene and some wild action \u2013 so that Avengers vision was an exact fit. I had the \u2018origin\u2019 series mostly written already and a very, very strong sense of what they\u2019d be like if they met. One fan asked me if Jane Blonde and Matilda Peppercorn would actually get along, which was very insightful for an eleven-year-old! But it was really, to me, as if they were all destined to meet and continue to grow on this next step of their journey.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> When it comes to marketing your stories, do you find yourself focusing on the children who you intend to read the books, or do you pitch to their parents\u2014the ones who will ultimately end up pulling out their wallets to make the purchase?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 As with my allowing-planning-allowing writing style, this has changed over the years too. For many years, I was lucky enough to have the massive marketing machinery of multi-national trade publishers to lean on, and basically just showed up to the events! When it became my turn to manage it more personally, I did what I was advised to do and marketed to the parents with the purchasing power. Since the pandemic and even before, however, I\u2019ve become quite sickened by the amount of online marketing shoved down our throats on a minute-by-minute basis. Knowing how to market seems to be more important than having decent books in your repertoire. And while I know how to do it, I just don\u2019t want to any more.<\/p>\n In any case, my readers aren\u2019t really on all the social media platforms commonly used to \u2018sell\u2019 through \u2013 and I want to reach the readers. I especially want to reach readers who\u2019ll find themselves or a means to understand life, or discover a way to escape it for a while in some fun, fantastical adventure. I want to build a genuinely safe SWAGG community where readers can connect with me and the characters. To do all that \u2026 well, I\u2019m back to allowing it to happen again. I do some advertising because that targets people who are already looking for books like mine. I treasure my readers and let them spread the word themselves, if they like the books. There has never been anything more rewarding to me than a fan writing to let me know that they loved one of my books, and it helped them a little. I\u2019d rather have a hundred readers like that than a thousand who are blah about it because some mis-matched algorithm waved it in their face.<\/p>\n This also applies to my book pricing, incidentally. All 19 S*W*A*G*G titles are available in ebook for all e-readers and paperback. The four S*W*A*G*G books are also available in hardback, and I\u2019m going to make sure the whole set is available in hardback soon \u2026 and maybe audio. Every title is printed off individually to order, so if a fan orders the whole set in a bookstore, it\u2019s printed off just for them. Not only is this good for COVID reasons, but it\u2019s also much better for the environment. I\u2019ve been in publishing a fair old while, and it still shocks me that mountains of unsold, mass-produced paperbacks often get shredded and pulped. My books may be more expensive, but I\u2019d rather people grabbed their story in an electronic form, or spent a little more on a just-in-time printed book that is better for them and the planet. Even better if it\u2019s a collectable hardback that will last a lifetime!<\/p>\n So an interesting question that has many answers, but really boils down to one response. I don\u2019t really care about marketing! I do what I can to make it as gentle and unintrusive a process as possible. My readers will just find me, in some magical way that works for them. If you build it, they will come.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> Because you have so many characters, and so many stories, there\u2019s a lot of different places that you can enter the Marshall-verse.\u00a0 What would be your suggestion for where readers should begin?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Marshall-verse. I like that! Yep, the S*W*A*G*G franchise-like collection is made up of one SWAGGey ensemble series where we meet mysterious team leader, Gideon Flynn, and four origin stories starting with Jane Blonde, then Jack B-C, Catgirl Matilda Peppercorn and Stein of Stein and Frank.<\/p>\n Readers who are completely new to my books could start with S*W*A*G*G 1: Spook, and then either carry on with the SWAGG series or deep-dive into their favourite character. Each of the S*W*A*G*G books is told by a different team member (S*W*A*G*G 1 by Jane Blonde, 2 by Jack B-C, 3 by Matilda Peppercorn and 4 by Stein) so each one is almost an epilogue to their origin series, while also being the next instalment in the team adventures. You can see the 19-book trail on swaggbooks.com for really big readers who want to go from Book 1, Jane Blonde Sensational Spylet, to Book 19, S*W*A*G*G 4: Soulforce!<\/p>\n Alternatively, you could enjoy finding out all about your favourite character and how they got to be in S*W*A*G*G by following their series. And if they\u2019re not sure which might be the favourite character, readers can take the S*W*A*G*G personality test (also on swaggbooks.com) to find out which character is most like them and read their series first.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> With as much as you had written before S*W*A*G*G, and with the threads all coming together, was it easy to act as the storytelling seamstress and carefully stitching everything together, or were there some challenges in handling all the information the right way?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was relatively easy in some respects, as I know the characters so well and they could direct themselves. Unconsciously, I\u2019d even held some things back in the origin series so they could be answered in the ensemble series. I don\u2019t recommend this for writers, by the way! I\u2019d normally advise them to put it all out there on the page. However, while all the origin series are complete, it meant I had almost-invisible silver threads to pull on that wove into the plotlines and connections for S*W*A*G*G in a way I couldn\u2019t consciously have imagined.<\/p>\n Naturally, there were some hiccups too! Some of the original books were written quite a while ago, so I didn\u2019t remember all the details and had to go back over them to check. In addition to that, I know my characters mostly by how they feel, so I don\u2019t always take too much notice of what they\u2019re wearing, how their hair is that day and so on. I realised part way through Spook that I\u2019d changed someone\u2019s hair colour \u2013 had to go back and do a bit of fixing on that one!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> Perhaps you\u2019d just found someone\u2019s evil twin in the writing instead!\u00a0 On a more serious note, moving across so many books, and jumping around in the timeline from the origin stories to the collaborative series, I imagine there may have been some challenges in keeping everything tidy.\u00a0 What advice would you recommend for writers who similarly are working on this sort of persistent fantasy worldbuilding that sees all this connective tissue?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think there is definitely some evil twinning going on here and there! As for how to keep it tidy \u2013 well, I would first of all confess that I didn\u2019t know as I was writing the characters\u2019 series that there would one day be a collaborative series, so it wasn\u2019t a conscious tidying. I\u2019ve always just been driven to finish the story, even when there was no longer a publisher or a guaranteed readership involved. But in that, I am extremely driven, dedicated an organised. I wrote some Jane and Jack at the same time, as mentioned, but usually I focus on one character and I write until the story\u2019s complete. Then I complete the next. I didn\u2019t start S*W*A*G*G until all the loose ends were tied up, character-by-character, so that I knew exactly what background elements I could pull forward and reference again.<\/p>\n The biggest challenge has probably been writing the S*W*A*G*G titles without giving away too many massive spoilers for the origin series, on the one hand, while not being too mysterious about back-story on the other. I wanted to make sure each series could be enjoyed separately or together. Time will tell the degree to which I managed to pull that off! What was very intriguing to me, though, was the structure of the overall series compared with the structure of an individual book. Every one of my novels (and many other people\u2019s!) follow a certain filmic plot structure of three major peaks of activity, speeding up towards a climactic finale. I literally map it out on the page with triangles and oblongs when I\u2019m plotting a book. When I mapped out the entire 19-book S*W*A*G*G structure it ended up being exactly the same. Not planned, maybe luck, but very fortuitous.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> You\u2019ve managed to do what few can dream of and had the rights for your character and your story optioned for film and TV.\u00a0 What was that experience like for you?\u00a0 Were you prepared for such an interesting turn of events, or did it knock your socks off?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong> Yep, they\u2019re the kind of conversations you dream of as a writer and it leads to a lot of pinching of arms when you\u2019re having them. It happened very early for me, when a Hollywood producer and screenwriter showed up at my very first book launch for Jane Blonde, Sensational Spylet! He\u2019s since become a very dear friend, still in LA but not in the movie industry any longer. I had other, similar conversations about Jane Blonde and other of my books with incredible people in the industry, and yes, I\u2019ve had options for film and TV. Of course, only a small percentage of optioned books actually get made, so my lovely peeps aren\u2019t on screen yet \u2026 but with the huge increase in streaming platforms and so on, I\u2019m very hopeful that the moment will come soon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> We discussed the connection or similarities between your heroes and the Avengers, which invites another question of sorts.\u00a0 Could you see your characters moving mediums besides TV or Film, like comics or graphic novels?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes and yes! I love what Neil Gaiman does with his graphic novels, and my books clearly have a comic-verse feel to them. There\u2019s another reason for wanting to do that, however. My books are quite wordy \u2013 they\u2019re really intended for big readers with even bigger imaginations \u2013 but I think readers who are more visual would still love the action and characters. I\u2019ve been asked a few times, often by school librarians, to convert some of my books to graphic novels for this purpose. Haven\u2019t got round to that yet! But maybe it\u2019s next on the list.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> Your books are a little bit magic, a little bit superhero, and a little bit secret agent (with dashes of other bits of awesomeness spread about as well).\u00a0 After all the books you\u2019ve written, what\u2019s your favorite subgenre to work in?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think I would call the S*W*A*G*G books magical mystery, combined with action adventure. The spy gadgets in Jane Blonde are techy but a little magical, while the more overt magical stylings of Catgirl, Stein and Jack B-C are all wrapped up in a mystery that needs to be solved. They fit quite well into the detective subgenre, and often have a bit of actual history or science thrown in, disguised as magic!<\/p>\n Each individual book, each series, and the entire collection as an end-to-end story is also a classic hero\u2019s quest with epic battles and death-defying action. So yes, they\u2019re sprinkled with all sorts of influences, but even my standalone YA novels have a wee hint of magic in in them and a mystery to solve \u2013 just with a few less fight scenes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> When it comes to action and fight scenes, how do you conceptualize everything?\u00a0 Do you see your characters like cast members in a movie, with everything playing out in front of you?\u00a0 Or do you put yourself in their positions, and sort of shadow fight with make believe foes?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Like many writers, I see the movie version running across the screen of my mind, so usually I\u2019ll write the background \u2013 the staging, if you like \u2013 from that image. When it comes to my characters\u2019 own part in the action, I am right in their body and acting out every move. In trying to figure out how some action would look and feel, I tend to do a lot of punching the air around my laptop and yes, plenty of shadow fighting. It\u2019s one of the reasons I stopped writing in cafes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> Nineteen books in, Soulforce is indicated as the final installment in your widespread and much-loved franchise.\u00a0 Is it difficult to know that you\u2019re coming to an end of something so sprawling, deep, and rich?\u00a0 Is it a definitive stop, or is it something that has a chance at appearing again at some point down the line?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong> I feel a little sad saying it, but yes, S*W*A*G*G is complete. Through 19 books, I\u2019ve been driven to finish the story. I didn\u2019t know exactly what that ending would look like, but I knew it when I got there \u2013 like reaching the summit of a mountain you\u2019ve climbed with five dear friends, and knowing that, now you\u2019ve achieved what you set out to do, you will love them forever but see them less. There\u2019s only one Stein book at this stage, so I could see that being revisited at some point, but probably more as a script. Besides that, though, I\u2019m very aware that this may be the end of the book-writing phase, but the beginning of something else, something different. They\u2019re all grown up now. I can\u2019t wait to see what they do next.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> With S.W.A.G.G. coming to an end, do you have any other projects you\u2019re looking to tackle?\u00a0 Or are you going to take a much-deserved rest for a while and let everything sort itself out for a time?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 I decided to pull all 19 books together and launch S*W*A*G*G in March 2020 when COVID struck, to entertain children stuck at home, so it\u2019s been a very busy couple of years during a very challenging time for the world. I might go for the rest option, at least for a while! However, I\u2019ve written consistently for so many years that I know I\u2019ll never stop, no matter what I might claim. I\u2019m already toying with a couple of script ideas and I believe I may, at some point, have a PhD in me. For now, though, I\u2019m happy to send the S*W*A*G*G team off into the universe to see where they may travel and whose hearts they might touch.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> We\u2019ve come to the end, in some ways, but let\u2019s circle back to the beginning.\u00a0 What was it that set you off on your writing journey?\u00a0 How did you end up getting Jane Blonde in your head, and what pushed you into developing a story around her?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Very astute question, particularly as I discovered that the whole \u2018franchise\u2019 begins and ends with Jane Blonde. Jane Blonde appeared in my mind when my daughter (my actual favourite child!) was very small and very blonde. I would call her Blondie and Blonde Girl, which reminded me of Bond. I thought then that one day I would write about a girl called Blonde, whose first name would be Jane because it\u2019s the most like James, who would obviously have to be a spy but with a soft, sweet alter-ego (Janey Brown). That notion sat around for a couple of years before I took a Masters\u2019 degree in creative writing for children and gave myself permission to write. I wrote the first JB title, Sensational Spylet, after several other books and some months\u2026 and then several years later I finally and fully completed Janey\/Jane\u2019s story. Probably a good job that I didn\u2019t know at the time that it would take 19 books to tie up every strand! I\u2019m so happy to have followed all those impulses and let myself be guided by the quietly logical, puzzle-solving, heart-centred magnificence of someone very wise indeed \u2013 Jane Blonde herself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> So, your daughter was the inspiration for the story in some ways.\u00a0 That\u2019s got to be a wonderful bit of flattery and such a lovely notion.\u00a0 Was she the intended audience when you had written it?\u00a0 After all this time and all these books, how does she feel about this massive universe that you\u2019ve built around your catching and captivating characters?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 My daughter\u2019s hair was certainly the inspiration for Jane Blonde, and many people have assumed she is Jane herself! That\u2019s not actually the case and she\u2019s never been the intended audience \u2013 she was much too young to be Jane when I started writing the books, though in a way their ages ran in parallel due to the slow nature of publishing. She did personally inspire one of my books – a picture book about cavegirl Kave-Tina Rox which we sort of co-wrote, but though she\u2019s grown up with my books and writing, it was just my job in the same way as if I\u2019d been a lawyer or an accountant! Now that it\u2019s a \u2018universe\u2019, it\u2019s much more up her street because my daughter is brilliant in the field of film and visual storytelling. She is and has been my guide in all of that. We\u2019re working on it together, as adults, in new and fascinating ways, and I\u2019m enjoying that element of it immensely. I hope she is too!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T:<\/strong> Jill, I wanted to thank you again for your time.\u00a0 With as much as you\u2019ve got no doubt running through your head, I can only imagine your is similarly booked up.\u00a0 I appreciate the opportunity to learn more about your lovely cast of characters and hope that so many more people pick up one of your books and fall in love with this tapestry you\u2019ve created.\u00a0 If someone wanted to learn more about you and your books, where could they go?<\/p>\n JM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you, Tellest, for yours. It\u2019s wonderful to chat with a fellow author about the incredible journey of fantasy writing, and your questions have been the most insightful ever!<\/p>\n For anyone wanting to know specifically about S*W*A*G*G™, they can go to www.swaggbooks.com<\/a><\/span>. It\u2019s fun for tweens and teens with quizzes, factoids and downloads, as well as book info, and there\u2019s no nasty marketing to children! There are also SWAGGbooks pages on Instagram and Facebook, both of which are carefully monitored to make sure they\u2019re safe spaces for young people to engage with me and the S*W*A*G*G team.<\/p>\n For more on my other books (I also write for older teens and adults), they can visit www.jillmarshallbooks.com<\/a><\/span> and follow me on FB and Instagram.<\/p>\n And I am always \u2013 always \u2013 delighted to hear from readers if they want to send me an email (with parents\u2019 permission). I do try to respond to every one of them personally!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Once again, I wanted to give my appreciation to Jill Marshall.\u00a0 This was a lovely interview with a talented storyteller that we here at Tellest hope you enjoyed.\u00a0 As mentioned before, Marshall has a huge backstory of interconnected titles.\u00a0 The most recent one she released closes out the nineteen-book franchise, and we recently promoted that, which you can see here<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 If you want to head right to the book, you can check out S*W*A*G*G 4: Soulforce<\/em> on Amazon<\/a><\/span> right now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Within the past week we had the wonderful opportunity of promoting a massive franchise by a spectacular author.\u00a0 Jill Marshall is wrapping up a 19-book contemporary fantasy universe that you must read to believe, and it has been a wild ride learning about her and her stories.\u00a0 Now, you get to see the great talent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[463,350,462],"tags":[2901,2678,303,2902,2903,2899,2904,379,2900,2905,531,1182],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Featured-Interview-with-Jill-Marshall.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-76A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27329,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316\/revisions\/27329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Matilda-Peppercorn-1_Catgirl-SMASHWORDS.jpg\")
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