{"id":1564,"date":"2010-09-30T21:45:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2010-09-30T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T08:45:15","slug":"after-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/after-the-party\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Party &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and what a party it was, with well over 400 of you coming through the door to check out why the joint was jumpin&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>And Heir made it to No. 29,000 on Amazon today.\u00a0 I know that it&#8217;s definitely &#8220;early days&#8221; because there&#8217;s always that first     rush and then &#8216;wait and see&#8217;, but still &#8230; Woot for the early rush!\u00a0 There&#8217;s two 5-star reader reviews up already: <em>thank you<\/em> Rebecca Fisher from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyliterature.com\/lowehelen.html\">FantasyLit.com<\/a> (although I think that may technically be 4.5 on the FantasyLit site) and Sharon Stogner!<\/p>\n<p>Spent the rest of the day working on the flood of launch stuff still rolling in&#8212;there&#8217;s two more\u00a0 blog interviews to complete, with a Q&amp;A coming up. Time, as well, to start implementing my (nefarious!) plans for the AU\/NZ release day on Thursday October 7. Stand by for more next week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, tomorrow 1 October (US Eastern Standard Time) I&#8217;ll be doing my regular first-of-the-month post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>&#8212;and because <em>The Heir of Night <\/em>is &#8220;just out&#8221; in the USA I did hear a <em>whisper<\/em> from Kate Nintzel, my editor at Eos, that there might be some kind of giveaway &#8230; Just a whisper mind you, but worth dropping by to check it out. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1569\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Sweets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1569\" title=\"Sweets\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Sweets-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Sweets-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Sweets.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licorice &amp; All Sorts!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So much to do so little time&#8212;but a very important time to be doing all of it! And meanwhile, I still have this bowl of sweets from <a href=\"http:\/\/icelines.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Claire Beynon<\/strong><\/a> to keep the party spirit going a little longer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and what a party it was, with well over 400 of you coming through the door to check out why the joint was jumpin&#8217;! And Heir made it to No. 29,000 on Amazon today.\u00a0 I know that it&#8217;s definitely &#8220;early days&#8221; because there&#8217;s always that first rush and then &#8216;wait and see&#8217;, but still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-booklaunches","category-events","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","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=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}