{"id":16292,"date":"2012-10-01T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=16292"},"modified":"2012-10-06T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T04:42:01","slug":"whats-happening-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/whats-happening-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Happening This Week: 1 &#8212; 7 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, Monday &#8212; and time to think about what&#8217;s on the to-do list, here on the blog and\/or on other sites for the rest of the week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/14\/what-im-doing-more-on-daughter-of-blood-the-wall-of-night-book-three\/maliantile3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15965\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15965\" title=\"MalianTile3\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MalianTile3-86x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"86\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MalianTile3-86x150.jpg 86w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MalianTile3-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MalianTile3.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 86px) 100vw, 86px\" \/><\/a>First and most obviously, writing <strong><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Three<\/strong>, which is &#8212; of course! &#8212; an &#8220;every day&#8221; task and very much in the spirit of John Steinbeck&#8217;s book quote yesterday (right <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/30\/a-writing-quote-for-sunday-courtesy-of-john-steinbeck\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/heroines-vs-villainesses-on-the-supernatural-underground-plus-giveaway\/supelogo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8750\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8750\" title=\"Supelogo\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Supelogo-150x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Supelogo-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Supelogo.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Later today, once US eastern standard time clicks on over into 1 October (around 5 pm) I&#8217;ll be posting on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>, since the first of the month is my regular gig there. This month&#8217;s post will be something a little different for my posts on the Supernatural Underground, <strong><em><\/em><\/strong>so do pop on over and take\u00a0 a look (after 5.30 pm, NZ time; 12.30 am, EST.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/tuesday-poem-enchantress-of-numbers-by-helen-rickerby\/tuespoem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7519 alignleft\" title=\"TuesPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>Tomorrow, of course is the <strong>Tuesday Poem<\/strong> day&#8212;and if you haven&#8217;t already seen last week&#8217;s featured poem on the Hub, <em>Revolver<\/em> by Australian poet Samuel Wagan Watson, it&#8217;s well worth\u00a0 a read, so do check it out, <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz\/2012\/09\/revolver-by-samuel-wagan-watson.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s featured poem here on <em>&#8220;&#8230; Anything, Really&#8221;<\/em> was <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/tuesday-poem-sewing-the-world-by-kerrin-sharpe\/\">Kerrin Sharpe&#8217;s <em>&#8220;sewing the world&#8221;<\/em><\/a>, from her debut collection &#8220;Three Days In A Wishing Well&#8221; (Victoria University Press), both also well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Check in tomorrow to see what poem I have featured for this week&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/the-aotearoa-affair-blog-carnival-launches-crossings\/anaotearoaaffairblog_nz_icon\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12082 alignright\" title=\"AnAotearoaAffairblog_nz_icon\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AnAotearoaAffairblog_nz_icon-112x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AnAotearoaAffairblog_nz_icon-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AnAotearoaAffairblog_nz_icon.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday, I shall be posting the fourth of my <strong>&#8220;A View from Here&#8221;<\/strong> series (a spin off from the <a href=\"http:\/\/newzealandgermany2012.wordpress.com\/category\/carnival\/\">Aotearoa Blog Carnival<\/a>) in which &#8212; having looked at the view <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/16\/a-view-from-here-from-the-writers-study\/\">from my study<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/a-view-from-here-a-view-from-christchurch\/\">Christchurch<\/a>, and from <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/a-view-from-here-a-view-from-new-zealand\/\">Aotearoa-New Zealand<\/a> &#8212; I shall look at &#8220;a view from here&#8221; in terms of my own writing.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, it&#8217;s the opening salvo for the <strong>Canterbury Poets&#8217; Collective Poetry in Performance Spring Series<\/strong> with guest poet, Joanna Aitchison, and students from the Hagley Writers&#8217; Institute. The programme for the full eight weeks, including details of venue, time and entry fee, is <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/spring-fever-is-well-truly-here-with-the-poetry-in-performance-spring-season-2012\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/whats-happening-this-week\/hydrogensonata\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16308\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16308\" title=\"HydrogenSonata\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HydrogenSonata-99x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HydrogenSonata-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HydrogenSonata-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/HydrogenSonata.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a>Also coming up this week &#8212; I should have a new review from Andrew Robins on the blog for Friday: this one will be of Iain M Banks new Culture novel, <em>The Hydrogen Sonata<\/em>. Something to look forward to at the end of the week , especially for those of you who enjoyed his reviews of Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s <em>2312<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/book-review-2312-by-kim-stanley-robinson\/\">here<\/a>, and John Scalzi&#8217;s <em>Redshirts<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/book-review-redshirts-by-john-scalzi\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, Monday &#8212; and time to think about what&#8217;s on the to-do list, here on the blog and\/or on other sites for the rest of the week&#8230; First and most obviously, writing Daughter of Blood, The Wall of Night Book Three, which is &#8212; of course! &#8212; an &#8220;every day&#8221; task and very much in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292","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=16292"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16486,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions\/16486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}