"The Heir of Night" UK Launch Giveaway—& Launch-a-thon Result

The Giveaway:

The "The Heir of Night" UK  launch giveaway, has now been drawn and the winners are:

Miriam
Kathie Tanner
EmmaD

Miriam, Kathie and EmmaD will each receive a signed "Helen Lowe' book set comprising:

the UK first edition of The Heir of Night (in large format trade paperback); and
Thornspell (Knopf, USA), which won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel: Young Adult in 2009

Congratulations to you all. If you email me through my website, contact[at]helenlowe[dot]info with your postal address, I'll get the books in the mail to you as soon as possible.

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The Launch-a-thon:

And another huge thank you to everyone who commented on the launch day post. I really, really appreciate the moral support during this time, which is very tough just getting through at a day-to-day level. Yet there are so many people out there who are much, much worse off than me—the need out there is just huge, even if we are all "getting on with it", Kiwi fashion.

I have counted the comments and by my reckoning:

44 comments by people other than myself were recorded on the three posts dated March 3.
I made 11 responses, which I am also including in the total count, which adds up to a 'grand' total of 55 comments for the launch-a-thon.

And 44 by the way, is the most comments, I have ever received on a single post, so we do have a new record there.:)

In terms of my donation to the the NZ Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal, I was going to donate $1 per comment up to $500. Yet even though, as I noted in one of my comments, I am expecting to have to dig deep because of the earthquake on a number off fronts and $500 was always going to have been a stretch, $55 does not seem quite enough given the huge level of need that is out there. So I have decided to up the level of my contribution per comment to $5, which will make the total of my donation to the Red Cross $275.

I will be making that donation electronically tomorrow, 6 March, and would again like to thank all of those who commented, very much, for your moral support for Christchurch.

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The Next Earthquake Report:

And for those who are following the earthquake reports, I will be doing another one either later today or early tomorrow, NZ time.