{"id":12660,"date":"2012-03-30T08:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2012-03-30T08:39:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:39:42","slug":"the-big-idea-the-gathering-of-the-lost-today-on-john-scalzis-whatever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/the-big-idea-the-gathering-of-the-lost-today-on-john-scalzis-whatever-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Idea &#038; &#8220;The Gathering of the Lost&#8221;&#8212;Today on John Scalzi&#8217;s Whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/the-gathering-of-the-lost-has-its-first-us-review\/gatheringofthelostt-mm-c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12626\" title=\"GatheringoftheLostt mm c\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-636x1024.jpg 636w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>Although the USA, Australia and New Zealand <a href=\"..\/2012\/03\/27\/its-publication-day-for-new-zealand-australia-the-usa-welcome-to-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\">release day<\/a>is now behind us, there\u2019s still UK release day coming up on the 5th April, just under a week away.<\/p>\n<p>And meanwhile, the Blog Tour is in full swing with a <strong><em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/strong> giveaway (international) current on <strong>SF Signal<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/guest-post-helen-lowe-on-celebrating-epic-fantasy-plus-giveaway\/\">here<\/a> \u2014 and today I\u2019m onto the next USA leg of the tour (although I suspect it\u2019s fairly international too) with a Big Idea post on <strong>John Scalzi\u2019s <em>Whatever<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Idea is an opportunity SF author John Scalzi offers fellow authors to explain the ideas and inspiration behind their latest works, in their own words\u2013and today I\u2019m talking about the Big Idea that imbues <strong>The Gathering of the Lost<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>You can read all about it right <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/03\/29\/the-big-idea-helen-lowe-2\/#comment-316700\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>(And remember, it\u2019s OK to comment! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" alt=\";-)\" \/> )<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>And stay posted here <em>\u201c\u2026on Anything, Really\u201d<\/em> \u2014there\u2019s plenty more <a href=\"..\/2012\/03\/26\/blog-tour-schedule-for-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\">Blog Tour<\/a> to come. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the USA, Australia and New Zealand release dayis now behind us, there\u2019s still UK release day coming up on the 5th April, just under a week away. And meanwhile, the Blog Tour is in full swing with a The Gathering of the Lost giveaway (international) current on SF Signal, here \u2014 and today I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-booklaunches","category-guest-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660","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=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12666,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions\/12666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}