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Lian Tanner's Blog, page 21
September 29, 2013
Four weeks to go!
I can’t believe the launch of Ice Breaker is getting so close. Here’s part of my to-do list: design badges buy card for badges talk to the tech person about sound and video measure doorway in Founders Room write script for Joel pick up the dvd Glenn made find cardboard for the main hatch arrange...
September 14, 2013
Six weeks to go
Only six weeks to go to the launch – and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has agreed to lend us some penguins. Not real ones, unfortunately. Though I suppose things could get a bit out of hand if they were real. Loud squawking during the speeches. Feathers everywhere. Penguin poo on all the new...
September 8, 2013
Seven weeks to go …
It’s only seven weeks till Ice Breaker hits the shops, and things are hotting up. For a start, it just got its first review, in Bookseller & Publisher, which is the magazine that goes to all the bookshops. Here’s part of what they said: ‘Ice Breaker is wonderfully realised: the clanking engines, rusted walkways and...
September 1, 2013
First and second drafts
My apologies for not having posted for a while – I’ve been busy working away at the second draft of Claw (which is no longer called Claw, but that’s still how I think of it). And the work isn’t finished yet. I’m writing a completely new ending, with bells and whistles, goats and pigeons, and...
July 21, 2013
The Renamed Trilogy
This new trilogy is officially called the Hidden series – but it could just as well be called the Renamed series. Ice Breaker started off as Ice Breaker, then became Frozen, then went back to Ice Breaker. Claw started off as Children of the Claw (a name that I was never wildly excited about), then...
June 28, 2013
Ice Breaker update
It is now almost exactly four months till Ice Breaker comes out in Aust and NZ. This is always such an exciting time, as I get to see the cover (which I showed you a few weeks ago) and other good things. Yesterday the publishers sent me a copy of the map that is going...
June 21, 2013
The winners!
Well, I think that competition was one of the hardest things I have ever judged. All the entries were so interesting and so carefully done, and so creative. We had a spread of ages from eight years old to adult. AND some people did drawings while others used computers. How on earth was I supposed...
June 17, 2013
More last minute entries!
The deadline has passed for those in Australia, and a few more entries have come in. I’ll put these up, and then I’m going to think about them for a few days. Picking a winner (or two) is not going to be easy! But I’ll get there – and I’ll probably announce the winner next...
June 16, 2013
Last minute entries for the competition
The competition closes at midnight tonight (Sunday 16th), so if you haven’t sent your entry in yet, you need to hurry. In the meantime, I’m very pleased to see that we’ve had more entries, and they continue to be diverse and wonderful. Here are the latest ones: First we have a terrific poster from Gabi,...
June 13, 2013
Ice Breaker – the cover!!!!!!
I just got this today, and couldn’t wait to put it up. Here at last is the full cover of ‘Ice Breaker’, in all its glory. Now of course I want to know what you think. Do you like it? Does it make you want to read the book? What do you think of...
