Reviewing the Week That’s Been & What’s Coming Up For This Week
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.)
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! 🙂