Events To Date:

The Legend Award

On August 15, just over a month ago, I announced that The Gathering Of The Lost (The Wall Of Night Book Two) had made the shortlist for the David Gemmell Legend Award — and since then you’ll have noticed that there’s been quite a bit of Legend shortlist related activity — more, I think, than for the Morningstar Award last year, which is interesting to see.

So far, the focus has been around interviews, with Q&A’s so far on Dark Matterzine, Beatties BookBlog, ismellsheep genre site, Kate Forsyth’s Blog, SF Signal — and also, of course, my official Legend finalist’s interview on the David Gemmell Awards site, which you can read here:

Legend Finalist’s Interview
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So What’s Still To Come?

UK/AUS/NZ

First off, tomorrow I have a radio interview with Ruth Todd on the Bookenz show, which runs between 12-12.30 pm on  on Plains 96.9 FM. So if you’re in Christchurch, tune in at 12 noon for that.

I also have some guest posts coming up that I’ll be tweeting and linking to from here once they’re live:

• with Marianne de Pierres on keeping “Fantasy Fresh and Interesting”

• on RisingShadow re “Magic In The Wall Of Night World”

• on Fantastical Imaginations in respect of “Writing Epic Heroines” (working title)

• with Kristin Cashore for a very special project that you will have to “watch this space” to see revealed.
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All Ending September 30

ismellsheep giveaway
In terms of giveaways — don’t forget that the ismellsheep giveaway for signed copies of all three of my published titles, Thornspell, The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost, which closes September 30 (2013, of course!)

USA

US E-book Special Deal
For US readers, also don’t forget the 99c ebook special deal on The Gathering Of The Lost that my US publisher, HarperVoyager, is running — again until September 30 — to celebrate the Legend award shortlisting. So if you’re into ebooks and haven’t got your copy yet, here’s your chance — and, of course, books make great presents too.:)

Last But Not Least, Also Closing September 30:
The Legend Award Voting… 😉

Should’you wish to support Gathering in the final round–which would be very much appreciated–the voting link is here:

http://www.gemmellaward.com/page/the-legend-award;
(The ‘How To’: click in the circle above ‘Helen Lowe – The Gathering Of The Lost’, then scroll down & click ‘vote’)

And, of course, If you know someone else (or even many someones) who might like to support the cause, I would also very much appreciate your passing the word along!