{"id":1330,"date":"2016-06-22T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2016-06-22T22:28:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T02:28:56","slug":"cbbs-anniversary-guest-barbara-brett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2016\/06\/22\/cbbs-anniversary-guest-barbara-brett\/","title":{"rendered":"CBB&#8217;s Anniversary Guest: Barbara Brett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would we do without antiheroes? They&#8217;re often the characters who keep us reading or watching till the end. Usually, we&#8217;re shocked by what they do, but sometimes they ignite a spark of sympathy in us. That&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve always felt about Tony Soprano of the TV series The Sopranos. Despite all the terrible things he does, he&#8217;s a loving (though not very faithful!) husband and a devoted father. He wants the best for his family, and he even tries to get his head on straight by going to a psychiatrist. In the midst of all his criminal activities, there&#8217;s always a hint of his vulnerability. I wouldn&#8217;t want to run into him in real life, but I always enjoyed watching him on the TV screen.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1328\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2016\/06\/22\/cbbs-anniversary-guest-barbara-brett\/bb-pub-photo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BB-pub-photo.jpg?fit=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Exp10000XL&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1460394667&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BB pub photo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BB-pub-photo.jpg?fit=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1328\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BB-pub-photo-240x300.jpg?resize=240%2C300\" alt=\"BB pub photo\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/>(<strong>Barbara Brett<\/strong>) As someone who has had a career as a magazine editor and book editor, I know how difficult it is to create interesting antiheroes. Now, as a novelist, I find that it&#8217;s fun too. I certainly enjoyed creating the dangerous British corporate raider Harrison Kendricks, the antihero of my latest novel, SIZZLE:\u00a0<em>Where the boardroom meets the bedroom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sizzle-Where-Boardroom-Meets-Bedroom-ebook\/dp\/B01DL6F1E4\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1460124005&amp;sr=8-1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1329\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2016\/06\/22\/cbbs-anniversary-guest-barbara-brett\/bbrett_sizzle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bBrett_Sizzle.jpg?fit=225%2C315&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,315\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bBrett_Sizzle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bBrett_Sizzle.jpg?fit=225%2C315&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1329\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bBrett_Sizzle-214x300.jpg?resize=214%2C300\" alt=\"bBrett_Sizzle\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bBrett_Sizzle.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bBrett_Sizzle.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sizzle-Where-Boardroom-Meets-Bedroom-ebook\/dp\/B01DL6F1E4\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1460124005&amp;sr=8-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-via=\"compbeastsblog\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would we do without antiheroes? They&#8217;re often the characters who keep us reading or watching till the end. Usually, we&#8217;re shocked by what they do, but sometimes they ignite a spark of sympathy in us. That&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve always felt about Tony Soprano of the TV series The Sopranos. Despite all the terrible things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-year-anniversary","category-barbara-brett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kq3e-ls","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}