New Books
OK, it’s official—today I am at work on Daughter of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three. I did a little bit of work over the past few weeks, picking up story threads from The Gathering of the Lost (The Wall of Night Book Two) but as of today I am officially “on the job.” There’s no turning back now!
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Images by Peter Fitzpatrick
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Mary Victoria’s Oracle’s Fire On Sale Today!
Oracle’s Fire, the third and final book in Mary Victoria’s Chronicles of the Tree series (Harper Voyager) is on sale today—in bricks and mortar bookstores throughout Australia and New Zealand and several online booksellers as well. There’s a launch post from Mary on her blog, here, which contains information about “where to buy.”
I hope to bring you an interview with Mary, focusing on Oracle’s Fire, sometime in the next month. In the meantime, you can read my Samiha’s Song (The Chronicles of the Tree, Book Two) interview with Mary here, and a more recent interview on Beauty and Lace, here.
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Arts on Sunday: Lynn Freeman Discusses Shift with Poet, Rhian Gallagher
You may recall that on August 23 I was guest editor on the Tuesday Poem hub and featured the poem Butterfly, by Rhian Gallagher, from her newly released collection Shift (Auckland University Press.)
Yesterday, Radio New Zealand presenter, Lynn Freeman, interviewed Rhian on the Arts on Sunday programme. If you missed this thoughtful interview live, you can listen to it on podcast here.
Ooh, the excitement of starting a new book!
I love the title, by the way ๐
It is exciting—the bounteous possibility of the blank page (or sceen!)
And glad you like the title—it feels kind of simple but strong, also pointing to what the core of the story is about, although you would have to have read The Gathering of the Lost for that last statement to have any meaning! ๐ (Sorry, just playing mean there!)
Thanks for the shout-out, Helen! I’m also officially back and ‘on the job’ – hello NZ, hello release of ‘Oracle’s Fire’. ๐
Looking forward to the celebratory release day on 23 October, even though it’s officially out now!