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Inside Middle Earth: Fantail / Piwakawaka

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
May 18 2013

Inside Middle Earth: The King Country

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
May 11 2013

Inside Middle Earth: Tamaki Makaurau

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Apr 29 2013

Allusion In Literature: “Eyeless In Gaza”

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Apr 13 2013

Five Books That Changed Me (Warning: Not An Exclusive List!)

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers, Recommended Reading by Helen Lowe
Apr 11 2013

Here’s Another Photo of My Cat…

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Apr 01 2013

Welcome To The BookSworn: Spinners of Tales, Weavers of Worlds!

Posted in BookSworn, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Mar 20 2013

So What Are You Reading?

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Mar 10 2013

Three Arcane Secrets for Successfully Writing Books in the 21st Century

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Feb 24 2013

A Writing Quote for Sunday, Courtesy of Ray Bradbury

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Feb 10 2013

My Favourite Fantasy Standalone Novels

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers, Recommended Reading by Helen Lowe
Jan 30 2013

February 14 Isn’t Just Valentine’s Day: It’s International Book Giving Day

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Jan 27 2013

The Observer Celebrates Jane Austen’s 10 Best Characters—in Pictures

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Jan 09 2013

I’ve Seen “The Hobbit”—Yes, I Have!

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Dec 19 2012

“The Next Big Thing” Rocks On

Posted in Fun Stuff, General, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Dec 07 2012

What I’ve Been Doing: I’ve Been On Holiday, That’s What!

Posted in Fun Stuff, What I'm Doing ... by Helen Lowe
Nov 26 2012

“Just This” Moments: Celebrating Spring iii

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Nov 25 2012

A Quote for Saturday: Courtesy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Nov 24 2012

“Just This” Moments: Celebrating Spring ii

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Nov 21 2012

“Just This” Moments: Celebrating Spring, i

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Nov 18 2012

Fun Stuff: Trying the New—I Make A Floral Wreath

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Nov 11 2012

A Friday Giveaway—A Trio of YA Fantasy Reads: We Have A Result

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Nov 02 2012

Reprised for Monday: A Friday Giveaway—A Trio of YA Fantasy Reads

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Oct 29 2012

A Friday Giveaway: A Trio of YA Reads

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Oct 26 2012

An Aotearoa Affair: Frankfurt 2012 & “A View From Here”—The 5th Blog Carnival Goes Live

Posted in Fun Stuff, Guest Blog Posts by Helen Lowe
Oct 10 2012

Stargazing

Posted in Astronomy, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Sep 24 2012

“Fun With Food”—A Few Photos

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Sep 23 2012

“Absent Antipodeans”—Bob Kuhn Reads Speculative Fiction by Australian & New Zealand Authors at Worldcon 70, 2012

Posted in Events, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Aug 26 2012

The Magic of Poetry at the Christchurch Writers’ Festival

Posted in Events, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Aug 25 2012

What’s Coming Up…

Posted in Fun Stuff, General, Other Writers, What I'm Doing ... by Helen Lowe
Aug 19 2012

Thoughts On Space Opera: Women Authors

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Aug 17 2012

Hmm, I Wonder, Am I Really Right About Space Opera?

Posted in Fun Stuff, General, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Aug 16 2012

Yesterday & Tomorrow…

Posted in Friends, Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Aug 05 2012

‘Once Upon A Time in Aotearoa’: Today Is National Flash Fiction Day in New Zealand

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Jun 22 2012

Fun Stuff

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
May 27 2012

Reddit Fantasy AMA With Robin Hobb: What A Blast!

Posted in Events, Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
May 18 2012

My Reddit ‘AMA’ Q&A with Robin Hobb Is On Today!

Posted in Events, Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
May 17 2012

Exciting News: I’m To Do An AMA On Reddit With Robin Hobb

Posted in Events, Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
May 14 2012

On SF Signal Now—A New Mind Meld: The Pros and Cons of Book Trailers

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
May 10 2012

“The story is …” A Great Quote From Ursula Le Guin

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Apr 05 2012

My Excellent Adventure

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Mar 04 2012

“Life Isn’t …” A Great Quote From Alan Moore

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Feb 18 2012

Fun With Thornspell: “Nameless”—A Short Story For My Readers

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books, Short Fiction by Helen Lowe
Dec 16 2011

“Fun With Thornspell”—The “Rue” Short Story Here At Last!

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books, Short Fiction by Helen Lowe
Dec 15 2011

Another Great Thing About Summer …

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Dec 11 2011

Encountering Fantastic Worlds, Part 3: SciFi continued

Posted in Epic Fantasy, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Nov 28 2011

Encountering Fantastic Worlds, Part 3: SciFi

Posted in Epic Fantasy, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Nov 25 2011

In the Spirit of Poe and Proofing …

Posted in Fun Stuff, Supernatural Underground by Helen Lowe
Nov 21 2011

Fun Stuff, Not Proofing …

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Nov 18 2011

Summer is A-Comin’ In

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Nov 07 2011

Remember, Remember the 5th of November …

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Nov 05 2011

Encountering Fantastic Worlds, Part 2 continued

Posted in Epic Fantasy, Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Nov 04 2011

Forget-Me-Nots

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Oct 22 2011

Fun With Friends

Posted in Events, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Oct 09 2011

Steampunk Oamaru

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Sep 25 2011

Oh No! I Missed “Talk Like A Pirate” Day! But There’s Still Great Pirate Tales of SFF …

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Sep 24 2011

“Fun With Thornspell”: We Have A Result!

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Sep 15 2011

Around The Traps

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers, What I'm Doing ... by Helen Lowe
Sep 07 2011

WOW!

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Sep 05 2011

Fun With Thornspell: The Final Week!

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Sep 01 2011

“Fun With Thornspell”: Week 4

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Aug 25 2011

Six Great Non-Human Heroes of SFF: Part Two

Posted in Epic Fantasy, Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Aug 19 2011

Fun With Thornspell: Week the Third!

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Aug 18 2011

Six Great Non-Human Heroes of SFF

Posted in Epic Fantasy, Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Aug 17 2011

The Arthouse Presents “En Masse”, with Claire Beynon

Posted in Friends, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Aug 12 2011

“Fun with Thornspell”: Introducing the Judges, Plus …

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Aug 11 2011

“Fun With Thornspell” Reprise

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Aug 08 2011

Cool Places

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Aug 06 2011

Fun With “Thornspell”

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Aug 04 2011

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Posted in Astronomy, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Jul 29 2011

Fun With Friends

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Jul 25 2011

There & Back Again

Posted in Fun Stuff, What I'm Doing ... by Helen Lowe
Jul 20 2011

“ismellsheep” Review Blog’s Swagday Giveaway

Posted in Friends, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Jul 14 2011

Six Great Heroes of Epic Fantasy, Part 2

Posted in Epic Fantasy, Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Jul 10 2011

“Completed Today 3″ Plus “Fun with Friends” & Competition Reminder

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books, Other Writers, What I'm Doing ... by Helen Lowe
Jun 26 2011

Word & Image

Posted in Events, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Jun 03 2011

In Which I Have Been Remiss …

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Jun 02 2011

Six Great Heroines of SFF: Part 2

Posted in Epic Fantasy, Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
May 28 2011

Six Great Heroines of SFF: Part 1

Posted in Epic Fantasy, Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
May 27 2011

Blog Roll

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Apr 24 2011

More This ‘n’ That

Posted in Fun Stuff, General, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Apr 08 2011

“Winter is Coming …”

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Apr 04 2011

Some Fun / Good Stuff

Posted in Fun Stuff, Guest Blog Posts, Short Fiction by Helen Lowe
Mar 13 2011

Not About Earthquakes Or Their Aftermaths

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books, What I'm Doing ... by Helen Lowe
Mar 10 2011

Fun Stuff Happening—Everywhere!

Posted in Friends, Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Feb 03 2011

More Astronomy Fun—A Runaway Star!

Posted in Astronomy, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Jan 28 2011

Book Recommendations

Posted in Fun Stuff, Guest Blog Posts, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Jan 21 2011

And here’s the cat …

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Jan 19 2011

What I’ve Been Doing … Or of Glossaries, Catch-Up, Contracts, Gardens & TV Viewing!

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books, What I'm Doing ... by Helen Lowe
Jan 17 2011

Tis still the season—for lists!

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Jan 12 2011

A Food Anecdote

Posted in Fun Stuff, Short Fiction by Helen Lowe
Jan 06 2011

“I Wish You Angels” by Joanna Preston

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers, Poetry by Helen Lowe
Dec 31 2010

Earthquakes, Wine, Food … & A Poem by Keri Hulme

Posted in Fun Stuff, General, Other Writers, Poetry by Helen Lowe
Dec 26 2010

Christmas Is Coming …

Posted in Fun Stuff, General by Helen Lowe
Dec 24 2010

Mer-Made Magic & Maybe Mayhem on the ‘Morrow

Posted in Events, Fun Stuff, Poetry by Helen Lowe
Dec 15 2010

Rosewater Macaroon Cakes

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Dec 10 2010

Something About Auckland … Photos and Poem

Posted in Fun Stuff, Poetry by Helen Lowe
Nov 11 2010

Samhein—All Hallows Eve—Halloween

Posted in Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Oct 31 2010

Specusphere Review … & Halloween

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books, Reviews by Helen Lowe
Oct 29 2010

Cover Love

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Oct 15 2010

Painting It Red: AU/NZ Launch of “The Heir of Night” Thursday 7

Posted in Book Launches, Fun Stuff, My Books, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Oct 04 2010

Mary Victoria Says: I’m A “Versatile Blogger”

Posted in Awards, Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Oct 03 2010

Fun With Food

Posted in Fun Stuff, Supernatural Underground by Helen Lowe
Oct 02 2010

After the Party …

Posted in Book Launches, Events, Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Sep 30 2010

A Fantastic Party, But Seriously, It’s All You …

Posted in Book Launches, Events, Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Sep 29 2010

Here At Last: Publication Date In the USA!

Posted in Book Launches, Events, Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Sep 28 2010

Avast Me Hearties!

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Sep 19 2010

Zombie Love

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Sep 18 2010

UNconventional: Worldcon & Me

Posted in Fun Stuff, Guest Blog Posts, Worldcon by Helen Lowe
Sep 15 2010

Orbit Interview: Building The Wall of Night

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books, My Interviews by Helen Lowe
Sep 09 2010

I’m in Melbourne!

Posted in Fun Stuff, Worldcon by Helen Lowe
Sep 02 2010

Wine Wow

Posted in Friends, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Aug 29 2010

Of CP Lin, Food & Wine Matches

Posted in Friends, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Aug 22 2010

Here It Is: The Australia-New Zealand Cover!

Posted in Fun Stuff, My Books by Helen Lowe
Aug 18 2010

Tuesday Poem: “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

Posted in Fun Stuff, Poetry, Uncategorized by Helen Lowe
Aug 10 2010

UNconventional—Fun Stuff!

Posted in Fun Stuff, Worldcon by Helen Lowe
Aug 09 2010

Our Very Own G2V Star

Posted in Astronomy, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Aug 06 2010

New Zealand National Poetry Day: “Ti”

Posted in Fun Stuff, Poetry by Helen Lowe
Jul 30 2010

Sometimes …

Posted in Fun Stuff, Other Writers by Helen Lowe
Jul 29 2010

More Fun Stuff

Posted in Book Launches, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Jul 23 2010

The Pleiades Again: Awesome!

Posted in Astronomy, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Jul 22 2010

Check This Out!

Posted in Astronomy, Fun Stuff by Helen Lowe
Jul 18 2010

The Gathering of the Lost : Find Out More!

The Gathering of the Lost
The Gathering of The Lost: AU/NZ Cover (Orbit) - Read More Here!

The Gathering of the Lost
Jacket art by Greg Bridges
The Gathering of the Lost: USA Cover (Harper Voyager) - Read More Here!

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