{"id":12690,"date":"2012-04-01T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2012-04-01T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T23:10:06","slug":"reviewing-the-week-thats-been-whats-coming-up-for-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/reviewing-the-week-thats-been-whats-coming-up-for-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing the Week That&#8217;s Been &#038; What&#8217;s Coming Up For This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12626\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><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\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12626\" class=\"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><p id=\"caption-attachment-12626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been quite a week, with the launch of <strong><em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two<\/strong> for the USA\/Canada, Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday, as well as commencing the Blog Tour, with stops this week at:<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* SF Signal<\/strong> &#8212; launching the tour in North America with a post \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><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* Orbit<\/strong> &#8212; where I kicked off the Australian tour with a discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/2012\/03\/26\/celebrating-the-gathering-of-the-lost-the-power-of-environment\/\"><em>The Power of Environment<\/em><\/a> in my writing<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* John Scalzi&#8217;s Whatever<\/strong> &#8212; with a guest post on <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/03\/29\/the-big-idea-helen-lowe-2\/#comment-316700\">the Big Idea <\/a>that manifested in <em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* Trent Jamieson&#8217;s <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trentjamieson.com\/?p=1309\">Trentonomicon<\/a> &#8212; with a guest post on <em>\u201cRomance vs Reality: War &amp; Conflict in Epic Fantasy and \u2018The Gathering of the Lost.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plus<\/strong> a radio interview on <strong>PlainsFM Morning<\/strong>, podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/plainsfm.org.nz\/on-demand\/mornings-Helen-Lowe-mar27\/\">here<\/a>, and a blog feature on <a href=\"http:\/\/harpervoyagerbooks.com\/2012\/03\/29\/now-available-helen-lowes-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\">Harper Voyager Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve also been doing some other ex-Blog Tour interviews &#8220;behind the scenes&#8221; but I&#8217;ll being details of those and where to read\/look\/listen as they are published.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11204\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/catherine-asaro-on-the-gathering-of-the-lost-the-wall-of-night-book-two\/gatheringoflost-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11204\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11204\" title=\"GatheringofLost (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AUS\/NZ cover<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Meanwhile, coming up this week, 2 &#8211; 8 April, I have the following on the schedule:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>the realtime launch for <em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em> at the University Book Shop, University of Canterbury (if you&#8217;re local and want to attend, email gillian[at]ubscan[dot]co[dot]nz) &#8212; I am certainly looking forward to &#8220;pressing pause&#8221; and taking the opportunity to celebrate with readers and friends, particularly after the long slog, discussed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/2012\/03\/26\/celebrating-the-gathering-of-the-lost-the-power-of-environment\/\">Orbit<\/a>, to get to this point &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>the UK release of GATHERING on 5 April&#8212;&amp; I thought we might have another wee celebration here on the blog to toast &#8220;the best of British!&#8221; \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And of course the Blog Tour is continuing<\/strong> with the following stops coming up&#8212;and you&#8217;ll see there&#8217;s one more added from the first annoucement on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/blog-tour-schedule-for-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\">March 26<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1 April: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(US\/international) <strong> \u2013 <\/strong>where I shall be talking about romance in <em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>\u00a0 (by the way, that is 1 April US time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2 April: <a href=\"http:\/\/civilian-reader.blogspot.co.nz\/\">Civilian Reader<\/a> <\/strong>(US)<strong> \u2013 <\/strong>an interview with with Stefan Fergus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3 April: <a href=\"http:\/\/beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz\/\">Beatties Bookblog<\/a><\/strong> (NZ) <strong>\u2013<\/strong> where I preview the forthcoming UBS launch that evening<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>5 April: <a href=\"http:\/\/gillpolack.livejournal.com\/\">Gillian Polack<\/a> <\/strong>(AU) Guest post on the influence of history on\u00a0The Wall of Night series and<em> The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>7 April: <a href=\"http:\/\/maryvictoria.net\/\">Chronicles of the Tree<\/a><\/strong> (NZ) \u2013 An interview with Mary Victoria (and I am about to start responding to her thoughtful questions this very day!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So as you can probably guess from all this I am very busy&#8212;but it is great to be getting out and around the traps and I look forward to seeing many of you along the way, either in person at the realtime launch on Tuesday, or on the Blog Tour! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been quite a week, with the launch of The Gathering of the Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two for the USA\/Canada, Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday, as well as commencing the Blog Tour, with stops this week at: * SF Signal &#8212; 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