{"id":1486,"date":"2010-09-27T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T23:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2010-09-28T20:44:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T07:44:33","slug":"early-copies-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/early-copies-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Copies Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giveaway Result:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I apologise for the delay in posting this result, but today is On Sale day for Heir in the USA and things are frantic—frantic, <\/em>I tell you! (But fun!) <\/span><\/p>\n

So the signed samplers go to everyone who posted: <\/span><\/p>\n

Janicu
\nMette
\nWen
\nMary
\nZac<\/span><\/p>\n

And the Sorting Hat, deployed as always in the interests of random impartiality, did spend some time muttering Hufflepuff, Ravensclaw, Gryffindor<\/em>, before declaring that the winner of the signed Heir <\/em>ARE is:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mette!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Congratulations, Mette—thank you for commenting. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you email me through contact@helenlowe.info<\/em> with a postal adress (assuming I do not already have it), I will get samplers and ARE in the mail.
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—<\/span>
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Only two days to go now …<\/p>\n

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Arrived today!<\/p><\/div>\n

And early this morning a courier van turned up in my drive (why do they always come with the dawn chorus?)\u00a0 “Are you Helen?” the courier asked, and I confimed that indeed, Helen I was—and am—so he handed over the small, awkwardly shaped parcel with the New York sender’s address. Of course, I checked out the shape with my hands (as you do!) and guessed “books”—and books, once I cut the packaging open, it was.<\/p>\n

Two early copies of the US edition of Heir <\/strong><\/em>(that’s the blue cover, guys, just in case you were in any doubt) with “more to come”—but this way I will have a copy in hand, and a spare, for the big day, which is the 28th. It looks just wonderful<\/span>. Fabulous, in fact. And the title is embossed, so it feels<\/em> wonderful as well.<\/p>\n

Just to add to the excitement, when I checked my email immediately afterward, I found that another review for Heir<\/strong><\/em> had come through from Bookloons<\/strong><\/a> in Canada (you know about me and reviews now, because I talked about reviews<\/a> on Saturday). You can read the full Bookloons review here<\/strong><\/a>, but the verdict is:<\/p>\n

“I very much enjoyed The Heir of Night<\/em><\/strong> and am anxious for more of this very promising and fast-paced new epic fantasy in the second book, The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

So, in the spirit of Saturday’s post, still staying on my centre here, but all the same—yay!<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

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Samplers<\/p><\/div>\n

Also, I have just realized that I was supposed to do another giveaway yesterday—and I FORGOT! Clearly, I am a bad person and a failure as a “human bean”. But there is still today—and the giveaway is 5 signed copies of The Heir of Night <\/strong><\/em>sampler (i.e. a chapbook containing the first 2.5 chapters of Heir<\/strong><\/em>) that was available at Worldcon<\/a><\/span>–and they will go to the first 5 people to comment on this or subsequent posts. <\/span><\/p>\n

But to make up for my failure to do the promised giveaway yesterday and to celebrate receiving my very own, real-deal USA Heir <\/strong><\/em>(plus a spare) I will also give away my last signed copy of the Advanced Reader Edition (i.e. uncorrected readers’ proof or galley) of The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em>—with the winner to be drawn from the names of those who post today (ie before midnight NZ time) saying they would like it. (Of course, if only one person posts–well, they’ll get it!)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giveaway Result: I apologise for the delay in posting this result, but today is On Sale day for Heir in the USA and things are frantic—frantic, I tell you! (But fun!) So the signed samplers go to everyone who posted: Janicu Mette Wen Mary Zac And the Sorting Hat, deployed as always in the interests […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","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=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}