{"id":1665,"date":"2010-10-07T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2010-10-07T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T00:11:41","slug":"the-heir-of-night-launched-in-australianew-zealand-today-im-celebratin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/10\/07\/the-heir-of-night-launched-in-australianew-zealand-today-im-celebratin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Heir of Night&#8221; Launched in Australia\/New Zealand Today&#8212;&#038; I&#8217;m Celebratin&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WOOT<\/strong>&#8211;it&#8217;s finally arrived! Today is Australia\/New Zealand launch day for <em><strong>The Heir of Night <\/strong><\/em><strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\">The Wall of Night Series<\/a> Book One)<\/strong>&#8212;&amp; there&#8217;s giveways: positively loads of loot in fact! Keep <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">scrolling down<\/span> to find out more!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1678\" title=\"heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone who posts to celebrate the AU\/NZ launch of <em><strong>The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">today<\/span> will go in the draw to win (ta da! ta-da-dum!-BIG drum roll!!):<\/p>\n<pre>[Note: 1 entry counted per person; no more than 1 giveaway per person]<\/pre>\n<p>1. <strong>1 x fantastic gift set of 5 books published by <a href=\"fantastic gift set of 5 books:  The Heir of Night (of course!)\u2014plus books from 4 other Orbit authors Death Most Definite \u2013 Trent Jamieson Feed - Mira Grant Soulless \u2013 Gail Carriger Surface Detail \u2013 Iain M. Banks\">Orbit<\/a>: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em> (of course! \ud83d\ude09 )\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">plus<\/span><br \/>\n<em><strong>Death Most Definite <\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Trent Jamieson<br \/>\n<em><strong>Feed <\/strong><\/em>&#8211; Mira Grant<br \/>\n<em><strong>Soulless<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Gail Carriger<br \/>\n<em><strong>Surface Detail<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Iain M. Banks<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. 3 x Helen Lowe gift sets of: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Heir of Night<br \/>\nThornspell<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/OrbitAustralia_FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-933\" title=\"OrbitAustralia_FINAL\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/OrbitAustralia_FINAL-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/OrbitAustralia_FINAL-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/OrbitAustralia_FINAL-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/OrbitAustralia_FINAL.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><\/a>3. Posters &amp; Signed Bookplates<\/strong><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 x <em>&#8220;They Came From Orbit&#8221; <\/em>Worldcon posters, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">plus<\/span> 10 x <em>The Heir of Night <\/em>(A3) cover posters, plus<\/li>\n<li>10 x signed &#8216;Helen Lowe&#8217; bookplates designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/mojobob.com\/gallery\/gallery.html\"><strong>Peter Fitzpatrick<\/strong><\/a>, creator of <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> map<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>plus, <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Plus, <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>PLUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The &#8220;Enter the Draw to Give <em>Your <\/em>Name To A Character in <\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The       Wall of Night, Book Two<\/span>&#8221; Competition!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone who posts either today or on any of the posts by <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/celebrating-f-sf-the-heir-of-night-f-sf-author-guest-series\/\"><strong>guest F-SF writers<\/strong><\/a>, running until 24 October, can enter the draw to have their name included as a character name in <strong>The Wall of Night Series, Book Two<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Provisos:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each time you comment on a post by an F-SF guest author (in the series starting tomorrow) your name will get an additional entry into the draw (only 1 new entry per F-SF author post, however);<\/li>\n<li>The name included in the book is to be your real name;<\/li>\n<li>I reserve the right to adapt your name to best fit a fantasy character, e.g. &#8220;John the Miller&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;John Miller&#8221;, but your full name and the winning of this competition will be included in the &#8220;Acknowledgments&#8221; section of the book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>[Note: If you don't want your name included in the draw, just write \"n.i.d.\" (not in draw) after your comment.]<\/pre>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1371\" style=\"width: 162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Heir-of-Night-9780356500089-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1371\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1371 \" title=\"Heir of Night 9780356500089-1\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Heir-of-Night-9780356500089-1-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Heir-of-Night-9780356500089-1-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Heir-of-Night-9780356500089-1-651x1024.jpg 651w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Heir-of-Night-9780356500089-1.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AU\/NZ Cover <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have fun&#8212;I look forward to reading your comments and to the &#8220;grand giveaway&#8221; at the end of today. (And don&#8217;t forget to check back to see if you&#8217;re a winner!)<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s paint today RED for <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> AU\/NZ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOOT&#8211;it&#8217;s finally arrived! Today is Australia\/New Zealand launch day for The Heir of Night (The Wall of Night Series Book One)&#8212;&amp; there&#8217;s giveways: positively loads of loot in fact! Keep scrolling down to find out more! Everyone who posts to celebrate the AU\/NZ launch of The Heir of Night today will go in the draw [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-booklaunches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","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=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}