{"id":993,"date":"2016-09-08T19:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chimneyrabbit.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2016-09-22T09:29:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T08:29:04","slug":"time-to-release-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Time to release the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Friday 9th September 2016, is the official release date of my second novel,\u00a0<em>The Beast on the Broch<\/em>. On Saturday, I&#8217;m doing a signing at the Byres Road Waterstone&#8217;s in Glasgow, but tomorrow I&#8217;m going to St Saviour&#8217;s school in Govan with Anne and Helen from the publisher Cranachan to talk about the inspiration for the book.<\/p>\n<p>So to get me into the right frame of mind, I went on a Beast Hunt today. I&#8217;ve been in Dundee for the past couple of days (visiting relatives and going to Arbroath to talk about my\u00a0<em>first\u00a0<\/em>book) so I took the opportunity to go to the McManus Galleries to look at their Pictish stones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chimneyrabbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chimneyrabbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Collace\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They have an excellent collection of very early Pictish stones, pre-dating the later Christianised stones that tend to have traditional Pictish symbols on one side, and Celtic crosses on the other. And look! There&#8217;s a beast on this one!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chimneyrabbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chimneyrabbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2-169x300.jpeg 169w, http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2-768x1365.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2-576x1024.jpeg 576w, http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2.jpeg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on this one!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chimneyrabbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chimneyrabbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-3-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-3-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-3-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-3.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And one more! The museum was hoaching with Pictish beasts! Tayside was right at the heart of Pictish territory back in the early medieval period, so maybe it&#8217;s not surprising. These stones are from Collace in Perthshire, and Strathmartine and Aberlemno in Angus &#8211; all not too far from Dundee.<\/p>\n<p>All of which made the McManus ideal territory for\u00a0a successful beast hunt, just in time for the release of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chimneyrabbit.com\/?page_id=600\">The Beast on the Broch<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Friday 9th September 2016, is the official release date of my second novel,\u00a0The Beast on the Broch. On Saturday, I&#8217;m doing a signing at the Byres Road Waterstone&#8217;s in Glasgow, but tomorrow I&#8217;m going to St Saviour&#8217;s school in Govan with Anne and Helen from the publisher Cranachan to talk about the inspiration for&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/?p=993\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Time to release the Beast","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37h7H-g1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}