{"id":12903,"date":"2012-04-09T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=12903"},"modified":"2012-04-08T22:37:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T10:37:15","slug":"a-few-more-photos-from-the-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/a-few-more-photos-from-the-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few More Photos From The Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I did an initial write up of the real time launch for The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/strong> the following day, on April 4, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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UBS as people gather<\/p><\/div>\n

And there was a far more official write up on Beatties Bookblog on Saturday here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am not going to say a lot more words here except to reiterate what I said in Wednesday’s post—that it was a great evening and just such a nice feeling to celebrate with so many good friends—76 of you in all if I counted right—and the more so after everything life has thrown at us here in Christchurch over the past 18 months.<\/p>\n

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SpecFicNZ-ers<\/p><\/div>\n

But since a picture is held to speak a thousand words, here are a few more for you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Checking out the book<\/p><\/div>\n

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Poets<\/p><\/div>\n

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Time for speeches<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr Stachurski launching the book<\/p><\/div>\n

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Even the author has some fun!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Andrew Robins, 2nd speaker<\/p><\/div>\n

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And of course, signing books ...<\/p><\/div>\n

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& taking time to talk<\/p><\/div>\n

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I did an initial write up of the real time launch for The Gathering of the Lost the following day, on April 4, here. And there was a far more official write up on Beatties Bookblog on Saturday here. I am not going to say a lot more words here except to reiterate what I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booklaunches","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903","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=12903"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12937,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903\/revisions\/12937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}