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March 22, 2012
So What's Happening: Celebrating Publication of "The Gathering of the Lost"
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With publication of The Gathering of the Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two just four (4!) days away in the USA, Australia and New Zealand, and thirteen in the UK, I thought it was high time to start talking about what I'm going to do to celebrate the big release.
Firstly, I'm actually going to have a real-time book launch at the University Book Shop on the evening of Tuesday 3 March. I didn't have a launch for The Heir of Night because the first of the major Canterbury...
March 21, 2012
5 Days — & Counting Down to "The Gathering of the Lost"
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Oh yes, we're getting very close now—and having shared an excerpt from the prologue and each of The Gathering of the Lost's five parts, I thought I'd carry on the countdown with scenes that feature various of the central characters.
This one is the featured text from the inside cover pages of the book and the action takes place in Part 1, Festival of Masks:
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from The Gathering of the Lost(c) Helen Lowe
Chapter 5, The Guild House
" …
She stopped ten paces from the Guild H...
March 20, 2012
The Gemmell Awards: Just Ten Days Until Voting Closes
On January 16 I posted the very exciting news, here, that The Heir of Night has been nominated for the Gemmell Awards in both the Morningstar (Best Fantasy Newcomer) and Legend (Best Fantasy Novel) categories.
The Gemmell Awards have been established to honour heroic fantasy author David Gemmell—and to celebrate excellence in the heroic/epic fantasy genre, and on February 16 I shared some of the reasons why I feel honoured that The Heir of Night has been nominated, here.
But once the longlist o...
March 19, 2012
Tuesday Poem: Siobhan Harvey and "Day of Delivery"
Day of Delivery
It wasn't simply your name
or how it arrived at twilight,
a dream, somehow Jungian,
instinctive and ancestral.
It was my whole day:
a journey, a crossing,
a boy who appeared
and forgot to check
for danger. A thrash of brakes;
the way the boy slipped
beneath my silver bonnet;
the way I was emptied
of breath: this was a landscape
as uneven as the beginnings
of motherhood.
And the way the boy reappeared,
unscathed, smiling, moments later
and ran away: this was a window opened
on a...
March 18, 2012
8 Days — & Counting Down To "The Gathering of the Lost"
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Yes indeed, not many sleeps left now—so on we go to an extract from Summer's End, the fifth and final part of The Gathering of the Lost.
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....from The Gathering of the Lost.
(c) Helen Lowe
Chapter 53, The Solitary Tower .
" … The second dream she found more problematic, because the figure in darkness did remind her of the shadow cloak and she had been thinking about Nherenor before she slept. The vision could simply have been a manifestation of that—but it could also be ...
March 17, 2012
'Die Erbin Der Nacht' Has A Release Date for Germany
It's official—and I have the poster to prove it! Die Erbin Der Nacht, the German edition of The Heir of Night, is to be published in August. (See the poster below.)
Pretty exciting, huh?!
And very nice, too, to have my first book published in Germany the year New Zealand is the international guest at the Frankfurt Book Fair—see more here.
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March 16, 2012
Sunflowers
It's Saturday—and the early mellowly warm, mild days of autumn, or perhaps Indian Summer, so what better way to celebrate than with sunflowers?
Enjoy!
March 15, 2012
What's Coming Up With NZ Book Month: Starting 19 March: "The Great NZ Book Race"
Starting this Monday 19th, students from Katikati College (Bay of Plenty) and Papanui College (Christchurch) will be supporting their local writers by reading, reviewing, and then passing on books, from person to person until they reach the other school by the end of Term Three.
Their aim is to get their book read and reviewed by the most New Zealanders. Find out more by clicking this link—but the featured books are:
Aroha by Anaru BickfordBattle of the Birds by the wonderful Lee Murray (one...March 14, 2012
12 Days — & Counting Down To "The Gathering of the Lost"
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Are you getting excited yet? I have to tell you—I sure am! Especially with a launch and the other celebratory festivities planned, but more on that a little later … 
Of course, the 11 days is only to the USA & Canada, Australia & New Zealand launch on 27 March—the UK launch will be in 22 days, on 5 April!
But meanwhile, on with the countdown—and today's extract is from Part 4, Midsummer:
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from The Gathering of the Lost(c) Helen Lowe
Chapter 35, Caer Argent
"Malian had...
March 13, 2012
What's Coming Up: Right Here in Christchurch on 18 March—"Flights of Fancy: Kiwi Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror"
I was going to talk about launch day and publication events around "The Gathering of the Lost" today—but then I realised that well before the 27th March, I have a Very Important Event this Sunday 18, right here in Christchurch!
It's a New Zealand Book Month event put on by SpecFicNZ and involves 7 locally-based speculative fiction authors, including the internationally recognized Jennifer Fallon, our very own Jane Higgins, fresh from the Writers & Readers section of the NZ International Arts F...
