A Podcast Interview with Mighty Mur Lafferty—Plus Moar!
Yes, there will be moar — but first up, yesterday my podcast interview with the Mighty Mur Lafferty aired on her I Should Be Writing site.
Mur is an author herself, as well as a podcaster, and we had a relatively indepth chat that canvassed not only writing epic fantasy, Daughter of Blood and The Wall of Night series, but also writing process, the realities of writing beyond the first book contract, and advice to aspiring writers—as well as muses, donkeys, and rain forests.
If any of this sounds like you, then the link is here:
You Should Be Writing: Mur Lafferty Interviews Helen Lowe
(If you decide you want to skip to the interview, its about 25 minutes into the podcast.)
Now for that moar — and yes, there is news & other happenings:
I’m heading over to Sydney mid-Queen’s Birthday weekend & the week following & while I’m there I’ll be catching up with my friend and fellow epic fantasy author, Courtney Schafer, plus Sydney-side speculative fiction and bookish folk. I’m particularly looking forward to meeting Courtney in person!
.
A few weeks later, on June 22nd, I’ll be appearing here in Christchurch for the National Flash Fiction Day 2016 event — and although The Wall of Night series is the opposite of “flash” fiction (while still being mighty flash, I hasten to add) I have actually written short short stories in my time so it is great to be invited to be a guest reader.
.
It also seems likely that I will be participating in a panel at this year’s WORD Christchurch festival on 25-28 August, probably on the topic of being published internationally, so watch this space…
Fun at home and abroad, in fact!