{"id":12342,"date":"2012-03-23T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=12342"},"modified":"2012-03-22T22:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T09:35:36","slug":"so-whats-happening-celebrating-publication-of-the-gathering-of-the-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/so-whats-happening-celebrating-publication-of-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"So What’s Happening: Celebrating Publication of “The Gathering of the Lost”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US cover<\/p><\/div>\n

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UK\/AUS\/NZ cover<\/p><\/div>\n

With publication of The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two<\/strong> just four (4!) days away in the USA, Australia and New Zealand, and thirteen in the UK, I thought it was high time to start talking about what I’m going to do to celebrate the big release.<\/p>\n

Firstly, I’m actually going to have a real-time book launch at the University Book Shop<\/strong> on the evening of Tuesday 3 March<\/strong>. I didn’t have a launch for The Heir of Night<\/em> because the first of the major Canterbury earthquakes, the 7.0 on September 4, had just happened and with the city so devastated trying to organise a launch event just didn’t seem appropriate. I did have two blog parties (one for the USA and one for\u00a0 the UK\/Aus\/NZ) and they were both a lot of fun, but this time, after 18 months of earthquakes, a real-time celebration feels like absolutely the right thing to be doing. And as the current Ursula Bethell writer-in-residence at the university, holding the launch on campus also seems like the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

(UBS have the launch up on their Facebook site so it would be wonderful if all you FB folk felt you could\u00a0 “like” it here<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

But of course I am aware that the bulk of my readers and followers do not reside in Christchurch NZ (And am quite sure, too, given the earthquakes, that many of you are adding a ‘thank goodness’ to that last remark, a sentiment I fully appreciate!) So I shall be having a blog party on both the 27th and the 5th—but you will have to bide a wee yet to find out my nefarious plans for celebratory goodness around that … maybe even until tomorrow, or the day after that! But there ‘could’ be a grand book giveaway and—just possibly—another competition for a reader to give his\/her name to a character in Daughter of Blood<\/em>: The Wall of Night, Book Three.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But maybe you all feel giveaways and name\/character competitions are old hat? In which case I shall of course bow to the collective will and not do either! (But you had better post and let me know either way.)<\/p>\n

AND there’s going to be a Blog Tour, also starting on the 27th: I shall post the schedule for that here, too, in the next day or so.<\/p>\n

And we might<\/em> just get in one more book extract before release day …<\/p>\n

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