{"id":199,"date":"2010-06-21T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T02:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-07-06T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T03:16:37","slug":"something-about-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/something-about-mondays\/","title":{"rendered":"Something About Mondays &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And courier vans turning up in the driveway\u2014seriously, two separate courier vans!\u2014and leaving packets and parcels to open. You may recall that this happened <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/the-heir-of-night-are%E2%80%99s-are-here\/\">last Monday<\/a> as well, when the AREs of <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> arrived &#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_499\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-499\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-499\" title=\"001\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/001-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/001-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/001-728x1024.jpg 728w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/001.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Thornspell, the Paperback&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, today it&#8217;s my author copies of the paperback edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thornspell.info\/\"><strong><em>Thornspell<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and I have to say they look every bit as gorgeous as I imagined they would do. <em>And<\/em> this means that I definitely have the giveaways for <strong>July 2<\/strong> when the paperback is officially on the shelves here in NZ. So stay watching for that if you, too, want the opportunity to open a package (maybe not brown paper, maybe not tied up with string, but still, a package) with one of these gorgeous books inside. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But then the second courier arrived, this time with a packet of cover flats for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\"><em>The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a>\u2014and I have to say they are very cool. So much so that I know I&#8217;ll just have to give away a couple <em>soon<\/em>. Now to think of that suitable occasion &#8230; Hmm, this could require the &#8220;thinking cap&#8221;, companion to the<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_202\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/0031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-202\" title=\"003\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/0031-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/0031-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/0031-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;The Heir of Night&quot; Cover Flat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;sorting hat&#8221; encountered in the context of our <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/and-the-winner-is\/\">inaugural giveaway<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And courier vans turning up in the driveway\u2014seriously, two separate courier vans!\u2014and leaving packets and parcels to open. You may recall that this happened last Monday as well, when the AREs of The Heir of Night arrived &#8230; Well, today it&#8217;s my author copies of the paperback edition of Thornspell and I have to say [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}