{"id":51235,"date":"2019-08-17T17:51:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T07:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.30.214.42\/blog\/?p=51235"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:23:03","slug":"stephen-symons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/stephen-symons\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Symons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English born Stephen Symons lives in a little old cottage Christchurch, New Zealand, with wife Ruth and cat Bentley.<\/p>\n<p>He has been fascinated by stories and story-telling ever since he can remember, the stranger the better. He wrote his first fantasy &#8216;novel&#8217; at the age of nine, all the while devouring stories by such authors as Edgar Rice Burroughs, J R R Tolkein, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Mary Stewart, all the while developing the world of the Kalion Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Now semi-retired, it was the devastating earthquakes that destroyed much of Christchurch in 2010-2011 that gave him the impetus to set some of his stories down in novel form in order to share them with the world.<\/p>\n<h1>Author of:<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"vba80vwu7f\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.writers-exchange.com\/the-islands-of-the-sixteen-gods\/\">The Islands of the Sixteen Gods Series by Stephen Symons<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Islands of the Sixteen Gods Series by Stephen Symons&#8221; &#8212; Writers Exchange E-Publishing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.writers-exchange.com\/the-islands-of-the-sixteen-gods\/embed\/#?secret=WE2u87fdFe#?secret=vba80vwu7f\" data-secret=\"vba80vwu7f\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English born Stephen Symons lives in a little old cottage Christchurch, New Zealand, with wife Ruth and cat Bentley. He has been fascinated by stories and story-telling ever since he can remember, the stranger the better. He wrote his first fantasy &#8216;novel&#8217; at the age of nine, all the while devouring stories by such authors as Edgar Rice Burroughs, J R R Tolkein, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Mary Stewart, all the while developing the world of the Kalion Islands. Now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Stephen Symons","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[485],"tags":[87,262,417],"class_list":["post-51235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","tag-author","tag-stephensymons","tag-writersexchangeepublishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writers-exchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stephen-symons.png?fit=123%2C20&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQiy-dkn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224605,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions\/224605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/50946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}