{"id":12582,"date":"2012-03-28T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T19:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=12582"},"modified":"2012-03-28T08:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T19:14:30","slug":"its-still-launch-day-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/its-still-launch-day-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Still Launch Day in the USA! :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12567\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=12567\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12567\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12567\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12567\" title=\"Gatheringmm-2\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Gatheringmm-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Gatheringmm-21.jpg 137w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Gatheringmm-21-93x150.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s the amazing thing about timezones&#8212;it&#8217;s still the 27th in most (or all?) of the northern hemisphere! But &#8220;downunder&#8221; in New Zealand and Australia we rolled over into the 28th a few hours back now.<\/p>\n<p>So because of the time zones I am keeping the launch day post and giveaways very much open until the close of play today (that&#8217;s midnight) NZ time. But in the meantime, here&#8217;s the links to the interviews and Blog Tour gigs that&#8217;s happened over the past 24 hours to kick off the launch of <strong><em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/strong> in style :<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First up, my <a href=\"http:\/\/plainsfm.org.nz\/on-demand\/mornings-Helen-Lowe-mar27\/\">radio interview with <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/plainsfm.org.nz\/on-demand\/mornings-Helen-Lowe-mar27\/\">PlainsFM Morning<\/a> <\/strong>(So cool that you can listen on podcast: either push the &#8216;play<strong>&#8216; <\/strong>icon to listen or download the mp3<strong>)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I launched the North American leg of my<a href=\"..\/2012\/03\/26\/blog-tour-schedule-for-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\"><strong> Blog Tour<\/strong><\/a> has posted as well\u2014over on <strong>SF Signal<\/strong> by \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/guest-post-helen-lowe-on-celebrating-epic-fantasy-plus-giveaway\/\">Celebrating Epic Fantasy &amp; Publication of <em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> And, if you miss out on a giveaway here, I\u2019m giving away two copies of <em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em> there as well\u2014but you will have to comment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/guest-post-helen-lowe-on-celebrating-epic-fantasy-plus-giveaway\/\">there<\/a> to be in to win.<\/li>\n<li>And marked the Australian launch with<strong> Orbit<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/2012\/03\/26\/celebrating-the-gathering-of-the-lost-the-power-of-environment\/\">\u201cCelebrating \u201c\u2018The Gathering of the Lost\u2019 and the Power of Environment.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_12561\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=12561\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12561\" title=\"GatheringofLost (2)Small\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringofLost-2Small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringofLost-2Small1.jpg 147w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringofLost-2Small1-98x150.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AU\/NZ Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Click on the links to check the goodness out \u2014 and I\u2019d love it if you commented on the blog tour gigs. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<h3>But given it is still the 27th and release day&#8212;yippee!&#8212; in the northern hemisphere, the <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/its-publication-day-for-new-zealand-australia-the-usa-welcome-to-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\">&#8220;Welcome to the Gathering of the Lost post immediately below<\/a> is still fully open to commenting and entering the release day contests!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the amazing thing about timezones&#8212;it&#8217;s still the 27th in most (or all?) of the northern hemisphere! But &#8220;downunder&#8221; in New Zealand and Australia we rolled over into the 28th a few hours back now. So because of the time zones I am keeping the launch day post and giveaways very much open until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12582"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12597,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions\/12597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}