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So The Book Is Out & You Really Want To Support It: Here’s the Four Step Plan

Daughter Of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three was published last week — and a few people have asked, in realtime and via email:

“How can I supportDaughter Of Blood in the world? And make sure there will be more Helen Lowe books published in future?”

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Here’s How:

1. Buy the Book: The surest support for this book and ensuring there are many more books to come is to Buy the Book — if you can afford to.

And don’t forget that books make great gifts as well, especially when you’re gifting a s...

Big Worlds On Small Screens & “Fantasy Films From the Eighties That Weren’t That Bad”—Rebecca Fisher Discusses “Willow”

~ by Rebecca Fisher

If you were to cherry-pick your favourite parts of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings and stir them together in a large melting pot, you would eventually end up with Willow, the 1988 collaborative effort between writer George Lucas and director Ron Howard.

The land is ruled by the tyrannical Queen Bavmorda, whose power is threatened by a prophecy that states a baby girl will be born that will one day bring about Bavmorda’s downfall. Desperate to avert this fate, Bavmorda...

“I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing” by Walt Whitman, 1819 – 1892

I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself, But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not, And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss, And...

On Supernatural Underground Now: “Enter, Daughter Of Blood” — Plus Two Bonus Quotes

Hmm, I pondered, what shall I post for my 1 February slot on Supernatural Underground…

… And if you’re thinking the answer must have been obvious, you’re quite right — I have welcomed in Daughter of Blood.

The welcome includes a round up of “official” reviews to date, plus an intro-excerpt from Chapter 1, Lady Mouse.

If you haven’t caught up with any of that already here, head on over and check it out!

Enter, Daughter Of Blood
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A February 1 Bonus

February 1 was my father’s...

Even More Book Release Fun! Plus A Review

Our host, Paul Weimer

A Podcast Panel Discussion:

The thing about the release of a book is that suddenly the author gets catapaulted out of her quiet, reclusive writing existence (which is excellent for actual writing, by the way!) and into the hurly-burly of interacting with the wide, wide world of readers and story enthusiasts of every kind.

Kate Elliott

Which is kinda fab, really — but it’s equally fab when you get to interact with other authors as well.

So by way of a sneak preview and a...

We Have A Result: “Daughter Of Blood” Release Week Giveaway & Tuckerization Draw

Clare Davis: draw scrutineer

To celebrate release week for Daughter Of Blood I’ve had two giveaways on offer, both fully international:

i) 1 x autographed set of all my books to date, to go to 2 readers (ie 2 x sets of books all up); and

ii) A Tuckerization opportunity — i.e. for one commenter to give his or her (real) name to a character in the fourth and final The Wall of Night series’ novel (working title: The Chaos Gate)

All those who left a comment here between Tuesday 26 January (NZ tim...

It’s Book Release Week, And That’s Important — But So Is Speaking For The Trees

Lime Avenue, planted ca. 1932 by Robert MacDougall

Because trees, as Nelson arborist Brad Cadwallader puts it, don’t have voices — so that means that when need arises, someone else has to speak for them. And need has arisen in my home city of Christchurch, in recent times.

Speaking for Christchurch’s Heritage and Notable Trees

I usually keep my blog to book and book related topics, but lately you may have noticed a slight ‘tree’ theme — most notably how Melbourne residents were sending emails...

58 Eridani: Episode 8 (Plus “Daughter Of Blood” Release Week Update)

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It may be Daughter of Blood release week — but I couldn’t not post 58 Eridani for your weekend fun.

But for those of you who are following release week events, the giveaway & Tuckerization draw close at 12 midnight on Friday 29, on US Eastern Standard Time. So that means you can still enter until 6 pm today, here in NZ. So if you’re still keen to enter, you can leave a comment here, or on “any” (or all) of these posts (up to that time date, which the blog records):

Returning Cha...

A Release Week Update — Plus The Final Day For The Giveaway & Tuckerization Draw

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Here’s the latest update for Release Week events. I hope you’ll go check them out if you have not done so already:

TOR.com:

Yesterday I had a feature post (with a very cool anime graphic ) on this famous genre site:

“Some moments are magic and you remember them foreverâ”

To read the post, click on:

Aikido and The Art Of Falling

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The Qwillery:

I had another interview post today, this time with The Qwillery:

TQ:Â Describe Daughter of Blood in 140 characters or less.

HL:Â All ep...

Meet “Daughter Of Blood’s” Tuckerization Character: Enter Che’Ryl-g-Raham

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Those of you who’ve been following the blog over this past week will be thoroughly familiar with what a Tuckerization character is by now.

But for those of you who may be new here today, I’ll just briefly reiterate that it’s when the name of a real-life person is used for a character in a book—and as a wee tradition for The Wall Of Night series, whenever a book has been launched I’ve given away a Tuckerization to one commenter, for the next book in the series.

One of the conditions...