USA Cover

It’s been quite a week, with the launch of The Gathering of the Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two for the USA/Canada, Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday, as well as commencing the Blog Tour, with stops this week at:

* SF Signal — launching the tour in North America with a post “Celebrating Epic Fantasy & Publication of The Gathering of the Lost.”

* Orbit — where I kicked off the Australian tour with a discussion of The Power of Environment in my writing

* John Scalzi’s Whatever — with a guest post on the Big Idea that manifested in The Gathering of the Lost

* Trent Jamieson’s Trentonomicon — with a guest post on “Romance vs Reality: War & Conflict in Epic Fantasy and ‘The Gathering of the Lost.’”

Plus a radio interview on PlainsFM Morning, podcast here, and a blog feature on Harper Voyager Books.

(I’ve also been doing some other ex-Blog Tour interviews “behind the scenes” but I’ll being details of those and where to read/look/listen as they are published.)

UK/AUS/NZ cover

Meanwhile, coming up this week, 2 – 8 April, I have the following on the schedule:

• the realtime launch for The Gathering of the Lost at the University Book Shop, University of Canterbury (if you’re local and want to attend, email gillian[at]ubscan[dot]co[dot]nz) — I am certainly looking forward to “pressing pause” and taking the opportunity to celebrate with readers and friends, particularly after the long slog, discussed on Orbit, to get to this point …
• the UK release of GATHERING on 5 April—& I thought we might have another wee celebration here on the blog to toast “the best of British!”

And of course the Blog Tour is continuing with the following stops coming up—and you’ll see there’s one more added from the first annoucement on March 26:

• 1 April: Supernatural Underground (US/international) – where I shall be talking about romance in The Gathering of the Lost  (by the way, that is 1 April US time)

• 2 April: Civilian Reader (US) – an interview with with Stefan Fergus

• 3 April: Beatties Bookblog (NZ) – where I preview the forthcoming UBS launch that evening

• 5 April: Gillian Polack (AU) Guest post on the influence of history on The Wall of Night series and The Gathering of the Lost

• 7 April: Chronicles of the Tree (NZ) – An interview with Mary Victoria (and I am about to start responding to her thoughtful questions this very day!)

So as you can probably guess from all this I am very busy—but it is great to be getting out and around the traps and I look forward to seeing many of you along the way, either in person at the realtime launch on Tuesday, or on the Blog Tour!