{"id":18386,"date":"2013-01-23T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=18386"},"modified":"2013-01-22T20:37:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T07:37:42","slug":"whats-coming-up-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/whats-coming-up-5\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Coming Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/writing-the-novel-an-extended-nautical-metaphor\/\">writing the novel<\/a> (an extended nautical metaphor with added poetry goodness ;-)), which is always the biggest part of the pie chart of &#8220;what I&#8217;m doing&#8221;&#8212;but there&#8217;s often a good deal else on the authorial plate at any one time. And even if it is only the third week in January, I am already hearing the <em>whoosh<\/em> of the days as they fleet by. ((Nods to Douglas Adams.)<\/p>\n<p>So what is coming up for late January and into February:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><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=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7519\" title=\"TuesPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>The Tuesday Poem<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8212; firstly, as I also mentioned yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\">Tuesday Poem<\/a> will be resuming next week&#8212;huzza!&#8212;and <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenjonesauthor.blogspot.com\/\">Kathleen Jones <\/a>will be featuring one of my poems on or around February 22nd. I am a great fan of Kathleen&#8217;s poetry so am delighted that she wishes to feature one of mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/12\/17\/just-arrived-not-saying-goodbye-at-gate-21-by-kathleen-jones\/not-saying-goodbye-cover_large\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10464\" title=\"Not-Saying-Goodbye-cover_large\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Not-Saying-Goodbye-cover_large-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Not-Saying-Goodbye-cover_large-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Not-Saying-Goodbye-cover_large-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Not-Saying-Goodbye-cover_large.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/a>You may recall that I featured Kathleen&#8217;s poem <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/tuesday-poem-i-am-guest-editor-on-the-tuesday-poem-hub-2\/\">&#8221; <strong><em>Listening to Glenn Gould on Orton Scar<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/a>, from her award-winning collection, <strong>\u201cNot Saying Goodbye At Gate 21\u2033<\/strong>\u00a0 (Templar Poetry, 2011), during one of my stints as guest editor on the TP Hub. (Just click on the poem title to read.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2091\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/the-heir-of-night-guest-author-series-marianne-de-pierres\/marianne-de-pierres\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2091\" class=\" wp-image-2091 \" title=\"Marianne de Pierres\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Marianne-de-Pierres-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marianne de Pierres<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>SF Signal &#8220;Fun With (Australian\/New Zealand) Friends&#8221; Interview Series<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Yes, this too is about to kick off again for 2013 and I shall be sending through my interview with Australian author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariannedepierres.com\/\">Marianne de Pierres<\/a> very soon.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Interviews with Fellow (Mainly Epic) Fantasy Authors<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/names-a-new-perspective-recapping-a-great-specfic-guest-series\/songs-of-the-earth\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17212\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-17212\" title=\"songs-of-the-earth\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/songs-of-the-earth-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/songs-of-the-earth-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/songs-of-the-earth.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been book swapping with fellow (newer) epic Fantasy authors and now I&#8217;ve completed the first two books in Elspeth Cooper&#8217;s <strong>The Wild Hunt<\/strong> Series&#8212;which I talked about in my <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/what-i-read-over-the-holidays\/\">Holiday Reading<\/a> post&#8212;I&#8217;ll be interviewing her here shortly. I just have to get my skates on and get the questions away! And after that I hope to feature a few more fellow fantasy authors&#8212;who knows, it may even get to be a blog series!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18388\" style=\"width: 97px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/whats-coming-up-5\/karenmcmillan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18388\" class=\" wp-image-18388 \" title=\"KarenMcMillan\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/KarenMcMillan-109x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/KarenMcMillan-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/KarenMcMillan.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 87px) 100vw, 87px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen McMillan<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>I Am interviewed Too&#8211;As Karen McMillan&#8217;s &#8220;Guest of the Month&#8221; for February 2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You may recall that I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/10\/20\/book-review-citadel-by-kate-mosse-reviewed-by-karen-mcmillan\/\">Karen&#8217;s review of Kate Mosse&#8217;s <em>Citadel<\/em> <\/a>here in October. Karen is a fellow author, reader, and also a friend and I&#8217;m delighted to be her guest of the month. I&#8217;ll post here once the interview is up, but in the meantime, to find out more about Karen, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karenm.co.nz\/4558.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted on writing the novel (an extended nautical metaphor with added poetry goodness ;-)), which is always the biggest part of the pie chart of &#8220;what I&#8217;m doing&#8221;&#8212;but there&#8217;s often a good deal else on the authorial plate at any one time. And even if it is only the third week in January, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386","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=18386"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18407,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions\/18407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}