{"id":20851,"date":"2013-06-10T06:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=20851"},"modified":"2013-06-09T18:49:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T06:49:02","slug":"whats-coming-up-on-anything-really-another-great-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/whats-coming-up-on-anything-really-another-great-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Coming up \u201cOn Anything, Really\u201d: Another Great Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/whats-coming-up-on-anything-really-another-great-week\/daughter-of-blood-tile\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20854\" title=\"Daughter of Blood Tile\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"54\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg 54w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg 109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 54px) 100vw, 54px\" \/><\/a>First off, today&#8212;and every day, pretty much&#8212;I am beavering away on <strong><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\">The Wall of Night <\/a>Book Three<\/strong>. Over the past month to six weeks I am been revising the manuscript-to-date and making it even leaner and meaner than it was, but also&#8212;the good part&#8212;considerably more twisty and turn-y. The constituent parts are always there on a first cut, I find, but it&#8217;s always about how you put the parts together and for me that always takes quite a bit of reworking. Anyways, another post will follow when I&#8217;ve completed this process, just so you&#8217;re all as fully in the loop as I am&#8212;other than the eternal proviso of course, a la <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laozi\">Lao Tzu<\/a>, that &#8216;the book that can be spoken of is not the book.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So what else is coming up this week&#8211;the <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/04\/tuesday-poem-i-meant-it-to-be-a-poem-about-sparrows-a-collaboration-between-artist-claire-beynon-poet-helen-lowe\/\">Tuesday Poem&#8217;s ekphrastic poetry series<\/a> is done and dusted, so I&#8217;ll be focusing on something else for this week&#8211;have been thinking about branching into a theme of &#8216;sparrows&#8217; following on from last week&#8217;s final poem. Watch this space tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20855\" style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/whats-coming-up-on-anything-really-another-great-week\/rebecca-fisher\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20855\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20855\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-20855\" title=\"Rebecca Fisher\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Rebecca-Fisher-95x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Rebecca-Fisher-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Rebecca-Fisher-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Rebecca-Fisher.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Fisher<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday I&#8217;ll wrap up the <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/heres-specficnz-christchurch-introducing-comrades-in-speculative-fiction\/\">Here&#8217;s SpecFicNZ&#8211;Christchurch<\/a> feature series, and on Thursday I&#8217;ll introduce <strong>Rebecca Fisher<\/strong> and a new series coming up&#8211;discussing speculative fiction (or closely related) film and television. I am really looking forward to seeing\u00a0 this kick off, starting with introducing Rebecca, who will be bringing you this fascinating topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/celebrating-mothers-day-on-booksworn-three-great-moms-of-sff\/bookswornthumb-php\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20366\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20366\" title=\"BookSwornthumb.php\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/BookSwornthumb.php_-150x67.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/BookSwornthumb.php_-150x67.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/BookSwornthumb.php_.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Also mid-week, I&#8217;ll be doing a guest post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/booksworn.com\/\">BookSworn<\/a> site so will cross-post to that from here&#8212;I hope some of you will pop on over and support me there with a comment or three. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I&#8217;ll be welcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripleypatton.com\/\">Ripley Patton<\/a> back to talk about her forthcoming second-in-series, <em>Ghost Hold<\/em>. I&#8217;m looking forward to finding out what comes next in Ripley&#8217;s exciting YA paranormal-thriller series.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon I could just about claim, given all of this, that it&#8217;s all happening right here&#8212;but if not quite &#8216;all&#8217;, there&#8217;s plenty going down, at any rate. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, today&#8212;and every day, pretty much&#8212;I am beavering away on Daughter of Blood, The Wall of Night Book Three. Over the past month to six weeks I am been revising the manuscript-to-date and making it even leaner and meaner than it was, but also&#8212;the good part&#8212;considerably more twisty and turn-y. The constituent parts are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851","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=20851"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20865,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions\/20865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}