{"id":1607,"date":"2010-10-04T18:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T05:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2010-10-04T18:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T05:33:51","slug":"painting-it-red-aunz-launch-of-the-heir-of-night-thursday-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/painting-it-red-aunz-launch-of-the-heir-of-night-thursday-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting It Red: AU\/NZ Launch of “The Heir of Night” Thursday 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week my world turned blue<\/a> for the USA launch of The<\/strong> <\/em>Heir of Night<\/em><\/strong> (the blue cover version) but this week I’m “painting it red” for the red cover launch of Heir<\/strong><\/em> into Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

So again I’m celebratin’, right here on the blog and Downunder style with a mix of jandals, eskis and … No, I mean GIVEAWAYS<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

As part of the celebrations, I’ll also be launching a series of guest posts by fellow F-SF authors<\/strong>, either from Australia\/New Zealand or with a connection to Australia\/New Zealand, on the topic of why F-SF rocks their world. (Pause for wild cheers—but definitely check back Wednesday for more on this!)<\/p>\n

Oh, the GIVEAWAYS<\/strong>, I hear you cry! You want to know what they are? OK here goes:<\/p>\n

1. Firstly, <\/strong>my AU\/NZ publisher Orbit<\/strong><\/a> has put up a fantastic gift set of 5 books:<\/p>\n

The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em> (of course!)—plus books from 4 other Orbit authors
\nDeath Most Definite <\/strong><\/em> – Trent Jamieson
\nFeed <\/strong><\/em>– Mira Grant
\nSoulless<\/strong><\/em> – Gail Carriger
\nSurface Detail<\/strong><\/em> – Iain M. Banks<\/p>\n

2. Secondly, <\/strong>there are 3 x\u00a0 Helen Lowe<\/strong> gift sets of:<\/p>\n

The Heir of Night
\nThornspell<\/em><\/p>\n

3. As well as<\/strong> Heir of Night <\/em>(red cover) posters<\/strong> and<\/em> signed bookplates<\/strong> (designed by Peter Fitzpatrick who drew The Wall of Night series map featured in Heir)<\/em> to giveaway
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

4. AND—Last But Not Least<\/strong>—<\/strong>enter the draw to give your <\/em>name to a character in The Wall of Night, Book Two <\/strong>(Note: this comeptiton may run through the guest series, but I’ll confirm that on Thursday. Otherwise—)<\/p>\n

All you have to do <\/strong>to be up for a giveaway or enter the name competition is post a comment on my blog on Thursday 7 (that’s Wednesday 6 for Northern Hemisphere folk)—Australia\/New Zealand launch day!<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to seeing you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week my world turned blue for the USA launch of The Heir of Night (the blue cover version) but this week I’m “painting it red” for the red cover launch of Heir into Australia and New Zealand. So again I’m celebratin’, right here on the blog and Downunder style with a mix of jandals, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-booklaunches","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}